Where Good Ideas Come From By Steven Johnson

Making Innovation Innovation is all around us, it is just waiting for our thoughts to collide to form a great idea that can benefit our lives in one way or another. Through our class’ readings from, Where Good Ideas Come From, by Steven Johnson, we are able to discover that good ideas are found through our passions. Since it is a new year, I have set resolutions for myself that relate to my passions. My passions that I am focusing on right now are wellness and becoming more active, like I use to be. I will need to start thinking more innovatively in order for me to stay motivated when the distractions of college life, like class work and my job, are pulling me in other directions. Through my years at Lakeland College, I have seen that wellness

I have always been addicted to art. Not so much about the history, but creating it. I have the freedom to do or make anything I want, with no instructions. One of my favorite activities is painting. It is just me and the canvas, putting layers of paint on top of each other, seeing how they blend together to make a scene; most of the time it is beach themed because there is no better place than next to the water. However, the most common things I do are DYI projects. Crafting is my one true love. I always make new things that can add creativity to my dorm room or someone else’s. One important thing to know is that I never keep my artwork, except for a few crafts here and there. I do not own a single painting that I have created, they can be found hanging on various friends’ and family’s walls. I give my projects to people so that they can always have a piece of me, it also makes people smile because who doesn’t like getting

I hate doing nothing, I need to be productive. So basically, games fill the void of doing nothing. When I visit friends, we go shopping, talk, watch movies, you know the basics; however, there is always that moment of ‘so now what.’ I dread that point so, I simply mention the idea of a game, “Let’s go to the gym and play basketball, let’s play cards, Monopoly….” Spending time with friends and playing games might seem like a weird passion, but it is what I look forward to. Each time I am with friends or playing games, I am always laughing and creating new memories. It is hard to predict what we will say or do, it these little adventures that keep life