"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution." - Albert Einstein
For those who thinks RU-vid is drunk because at times it has more likes/dislikes or comments, read this: You need to watch a specific amount of time so it counts as a view. Some people click, leave a comment, give a like/dislike or leave "first!" and click off or do those before watching the video. It doesn't count as a view. It's only a view after about a minute of watching time. RU-vid isn't drunk, It's just algorithm. To fix this problem, just reload the page or something.
If I recall correctly the views after the first 301 views are (or were at the very least) also verified before being shown and the views are counted in batches.
A teacher of mine in high school once said something similar. I and a few other students were casually chatting with him one day when the conversation drifted to my school's habit of creating a new rule that hinders productivity after every **one** isolated case. He said, "This school's rules are *reactive*, which is the problem, but having no rules wouldn't solve things either. Think about it like this: if you threw a party but made so many rules, no one would be able to do anything; they'd just end up sitting in a corner. However, if you threw a party with no rules whatsoever, people would be at a loss as to what they could do or where to start, and would also all end up sitting in corners. Meanwhile, if you threw a party and set rules to act as guidelines, that's where people start think up new ways of being able to do the things they want so as to not break them. That sweet spot iis where innovation happens."
This! This video is what needs to be shown to people for funding in the sciences in america! Its not always about finding the end goal, but accidentally solving another goal!
One of my favourite examples of "adressing another areas constraints": Quantum Tunneling and Computers. Without Quantum Tunneling, Solid State Memory would not work. No USB sticks. No SD Cards. No SSD. No Smartphones or tablets wich rely on that shock resistant persistent memory - wich only solid State Memory can provide. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_storage And quantum tunneling also has a relevancy for understanding the suns fusion (it would not work at those low temperatures without QT).
Tell Me This i do pay attention in shcool and they teach stuff that i already knew thats why i love ted ed because i learn more stuff than shcool teaches me and i sometimes know more stuff than my teachers (not all of course) bassicly the us education system os questionable
Yash Keni i do. I love their videos and that is why i am here. But, these videos are no match for the school/college. If you learn more from these videos as compared to school then you are doing something wrong.
"constraints arent the boundaries of creativity but the foundation of it" Very well said. This changed my perspective about problems as I will not be seeing them as problems anymore, but a way to reach my goals. Thank you ted-ed. Always been a love and will always be
As a graphic designer, I con 100% attest that this is true. I HATE when a customer comes in and gives no thoughts at all on what they want their logo or design to look like, especially when the design is for a field I'm completely unfamiliar with.
In my senior year English literature and composition class, the teacher told us our final project would be... anything we wanted. Well, it had to relate loosely to a single one of the topics we covered in class. I literally had no idea what to do, because the constraint of "make anything" just paralyzed my decision making. So I know what this video is talking about.
i learned this from keith richards, guitar world mag from 20 yrs ago , he said when he started playing in open tuning, especially open g, he now was playing on five strings instead of six. but that it forced him to look at the guitar in a new , fresh perspective, and besides we all intuitively know that the answers to everything are right in front of us at all times anyway
There's a lot of studies showing how important constraints are to our everyday lives. Research in behavioral economics has shown that offering an abundances of choices actually makes decision-making harder and decreases the quality of the choices made. Other work in Political Psychology shows that introducing constraints to how people think about questions (through the introduction of frames) actually allows them to structure their attitudes into something cogent. Without the constraint, many weren't able to articulate the contents of the thought-soup that's evoked by difficult issues. TL;DR: Constraints not only help us work with hard problems. They help us think in our everyday lives too.
"if u dont believe that constraints create beauty, please realize that the infinite poetry of the english language comes from only 26 letters" -Jonny Sun
A good example of how constraints actually boost creativity in arts is the Oulipo movement in french literature and Georges Perec writing La Disparition, a novel with no 'e'.
This presentation rings true today. Too many constraints were brought up by the pandemic; however, there were also a plethora of innovations that came up.
I'd say creative constraints narrows the possibilities, instead of saying it is the foundation, the problem of not having them is that there are too many variables and it makes it harder for us to focus in what we want to make, it is more of a guide, I think.
I heard somewhere once that exactly this creative constraint is what makes minecraft so appealing. essentially it's just differently textured cubes but by combination you can create whatever comes to your imagination. This makes you think about how you can build a bed, a fridge, a sink, a castle, a treehouse simply out of cubes so you come up with creative solutions.
In fact, the "skycrane" landing system was implemented as Curiosity was too heavy to use airbags to land. At the final stage of landing the descent stage hovers 65 ft. over the Curiosity as it is lowered by cables, contaminating the area with thruster residue.
Boundless freedom can get counter-intuitive, if given to people who can't handle it. But for those that can, boundless freedom will get them to where noone has ever gone. We have to get out of our comfort zone. Without boundless freedom, we'd have never put man on Mars. Our constraints are only mental.
I always worried this way of thinking is like thinking inside the box.But after I've seen this video I have been enlightened with relief that my way of thinking (creative constraints) is not bad.
"If you are like most people, you would be paralyzed by this task" But I'm an artist, it's my job to invent things - they don't have to be functional, only to look nice.
Creative constraints can effect writers if they let them as I see it. Because as long as you have google docs, one can write as much as he or she pleases, and can also write about whatever he or she wants even.
When it comes to the realm of art, Self imposed constraints tend to be the best however. Many projects fail or become too Limited when other people who aren't artists impose those constraints without understanding the needs of the project.
I do this every day at work. Whether building or remodelling a home, business. Building, cabinets and creations. Sadly though, this technique is often used to solve the problem of how to put lipstick on a pig. Get it done, fast and cheaply, yet make it look like you did it right.
I am not sure about this but there are always constraints with engineering or technical problems. Creative constraints seems more apt for art such as portrayed in the first part of the video. Many legendary art were created with constraints.
"Solutions must recognise the limitations of current technology in order to advance it." Very applicable to personal growth as well, it's necessary to put yourself out there - criticism might be the way forward. (Not an easy truth for me to live with, I must say)
I gave some children an intro to MS Paint today. rather than just let them mess around I constrained their canvas to 48 x 48 pixels. The least impressive designs were those who chose to ignore that constraint.
but thinking about a constraint makes people think of new alternative ways, leading to the discovery or invention of new ideas. I think thinking too much about a constraint leads you away from your initial goal
@Nicole true, though I think as long as it's more than one team working on a goal you'll get different solutions anyway. Its a matter of environment too, one organization in india will discover different things in different ways than one in france. What Jonas is saying actually matters more in the artistic field in my opinion, though it can sometimes be true in the realm of science.
Nathan Gatten I couldn't agree more about arts. There's that traditional idea that great artists break boundaries. But I am no artist, I actually am a engineer. In a more scientific way of thinking, there's a blurry boundary between boundary conditions and outside impositions. One has more to do with the problem itself, the last with management
So basically, too many choices could lead an uncreative way. that's why sometimes I hate internet, just ask google, you get millions of results and most of them are against each other, you don't know what to believe sometimes.
Here's a project I am working on. My goal is to segregate various types of waste like plastics or wet waste through automation for further recycling. I am thinking of using image recognition and machine learning to identify various types of waste. Is there a better way to do it?
I love videos of ted they are so funny interesting and helpful i love science because of ted and i learn to much things more then school thanks ted ed 💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕
