4: Water

• See the flow of ideas by looking back and forward

• Successful innovators harness the power of a flow of ideas

• Great solutions come from an evolutionary process, often with thousands of contributors

• Just do it then iterate

• Newton himself said his success and realizations were from standing on the shoulders of giants

• All creative geniuses start as non geniuses and take baby steps from there

• Ask yourself what previous ideas extend into the new idea at hand

• Guessing what's next anchors what's there

• Look back and reflect on previously gained knowledge and insights

• New ideas should be viewed as a beginning

• All ideas have extensions, you just have to find them

• Modern day kids have the advantage of seeing the way the world is right now without any biases from the past (&I)

• Ask what's next and follow the if this then that path

• Think 1 step back to imagine 1 step forward

• Realize that we are all prejudicial

• The best state is a state of working progress