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History 3 How do houses change over time? Which have chimneys? How do kitchens change over time? The stove cooks food. The kettle boils water. Even irons change over time. electricity iron vs. coal-heating iron Lighting fixtures change. candle (ancient Egyptians 5000 years ago) oil lamp (Romans 1800 years ago) gas lamp (1792) light bulb (1879) How do bathrooms change over time? Water comes out of...

History 2 List down the timeline of yourself. Family tree generation Connect the speech bubbles to the pictures. Photos help us learn about the past. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn

Oxford History 1 My History What were houses like long ago? Three brave explorers History: the study of what happened in the past. Rearrange the sequence of timeline of 5 Ahmed's pictures. Meet Mia. Meet Ahmed. Activities: Choose Mia or Ahmed. Write how you are similar to and different from her/him. Draw a number line showing ages from 1 year old to 10 years old. a. Write Mia, Adam, Ahmed and Lail...

Originals 25 Contours of the book: habits fit for Individual originals question the default have as many good ideas as possible learn new things outside of your realm (fashion designer) put the thing off a little bit get feedback from the people you work with if you are going to take high risk, be sure you are safe in other areas find reasons that do not support your ideas repeat your ideas so oth...

Originals 24 Pharmacy company Merck made their managers thought of ways to let Merck go out of business. Managers had to think of products to put Merck out of the market. This saved Merck. It's called "Kill the Company" exercise. Popović managed the emotion of the crowds at the 2000 Belgrade square. Deep Acting and Surface Acting Deep acting is better than surface acting in that it transfers confl...

Originals 23 Strength in Numbers In Serbia, Otpor! mastermind Popović used 4 catches: I'm against the government because I love Serbia. Bite the system. Argue until we win. I am one of the 20,000 leaders of Otpor! They sent Milošević a ticket out of the country and a prison uniform. In Chile, to complain about dictator Pinochet, people turned their lights on and off. People were invited to drive s...

Originals 22 People should be optimistic first and then pessimistic. Optimism makes us take the initiative to achieve aims in life. Pessimism makes us think again about all the risks in achieving the thing. When Lewis Pugh hesitated before plunging into North Pole, his friend bade him to consider 3 things: people around you (29 crew coming from 10 different countries) parents who took care of you...

Originals 21 Working with Emotions This chapter looks at the emotional cost of going against the crowd. Optimism and Pessimism Julie Norem found pessimists did well because of their pessimism. Keep Believing Alison Wood Brooks split students into two groups. One group was asked to say "I am calm" before going on stage to give a 2-minute speech. The other group was to say "I am excited." The "excit...

Originals 20 Think Differently Ray Dalio of Bridgewater Associates managed his employees well. Known as "Steve Jobs" of Investing, Dalio encouraged new employees and old to comment on company's policies. Finding Complainers Most managers say "Don't bring me problems; bring me answers." This is wrong. When you ask your employee to come to meeting full-packed with solutions to the problems of his de...

Originals 19 Groupthink Edwin Lan invented Poleroid. Lan was one of Steve Job's heroes. Lan had the second most patents in the US. His light filter is used even in sunglasses and watches. Lan made a mistake by thinking nobody would buy a picture that cannot be printed out. Commitment to Organizations Commitment is the best of the three plans bosses build their organization upon. Employees believe...

Originals 18 Less Responsibility The bigger the family, the least responsibility the younger children need to take up. Explaining and Correcting Parents correct their children 50 times a day. (15000 times a year) Altruistic Personality Study researched all 400 people who helped smuggle Jews during the Second World War Holocaust. 21% of the 400 people's parents had explained why their childhood beh...

Originals 17 Born to Be a Rebel Jackie Robinson rebelled even when he was in the army. They are people who don't care what other people would think. Firstborns don't have to share parents with brothers or sisters and get a lot more of their parent's time. Among 1500 CEOs, 43% of them were firstborn. Non-firstnborns are more likely to drink or smoke, and they are less likely to have good insurance....

Originals 16 How to Be a Rebel Birth order can affect people's desire to rebel. Jackie Robinson steals the most bases in American MLB. He is the youngest of five children. Journalist Robert Quillen commented for Jackie Robinson to become Major League Baseball's first black player in 1947 is his first bravest thing he had ever done. Jackie Robinson's attempts to steal that home base at that day is...

Originals 15 "Occupying Wall Street" ended unsuccessfully because the name of the movement was too extreme. Anthony and Stanton joined a man who was the most vehement against African-American men vote right. George Francis Train was too vehement that Anthony's camp didn't succeed. Anthony again joined another most prominent figure Victoria Woodhull. Again Woodhull was too extreme in her advocate f...

Originals 14 Vegans dislike vegetarians 3 times as much as vegetarians dislike vegans. The more strongly you feel about something, the more you want to show you are different from the ones who do not stick to the end. suffrage (n.) 女性投票權 (2 1 14) Anthony and Stanton were as critical as the vegans. Anthony and Stanton were against African-American men's vote right. Lucy Stone was against it. W...

Originals 13 How to Build Coalitions Lucy Stone is the first woman to speak out for women's suffrage in America. Lucy's words in 1851 meeting for women's rights were read by John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor Mill in England. After the speech, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton joined Stone. Soon the three broke apart. 1869 Anthony and Stanton left Stone's organization. Anthony and Stant...

Originals 12 Conceptual and Experimental People under thirty-five make change happen. People over forty-five die in terms of new ideas. Orson Welles made Citizen Kane when he was twenty-five. Alfred Hitchcock made his films a lot older: 59(Vertigo), 60(North by Northwest) and 61(Psycho). Conceptual people think of a big idea and try to achieve it. Experimental people work by trying different thing...

Originals 11 Pioneers and Settlers Better be settlers and not pioneers. Timing is important. Magnovax Odyssey is pioneer of the home video games. Nintendo was originally only the distributor of the Magnovax Odyssey in Japan. Nintendo took over Magnovax'es market. In the 1990s, A banker Joseph Park originated in the idea of delivering movies online. He failed his $250 million investors only because...

Originals 10 Taking Time Martin Luther King Jr.didn't even finish his speech note of the famous "I Have a Dream" speech. King procrastinated his speech note-writing till it's almost too late. The most remembered phrase--I have a dream--was not even on the note. It's finally realized that there was a female rock singer, Mahalia Jackson, behind King's pedestal that day. She shouted several times for...

Originals 9 Sarick Effect Say what is the weak of the business. Talk about what is wrong makes you look intelligent. Show the problems let investors trust you more. Audience will support idea when it is made clear. There is no such word as "Sarick". But the author used it four times in the book and we already trust him. The Unfamiliarity problem *Speak your idea often, and repeat. We like photos o...

Originals 8 Power is being able to control what other people do. Status is being admired by other people. People without status make suggestions, we don't think they should tell us what to do. *Wait till you have status enough in the position then you can begin to "suggest". Sarick Effect Rufus Griscom and Alisa Volkman started an online magazine Babble. In 2009, Griscom told investors top 5 reaso...

Originals 7 Carmen Medina worked in CIA Europe. Medina found printed paper documents were too slow in exchanging information inside bureaus. Ten years later, Medina helped create Intellipedia, a Wikipedia for intelligence organizations. 2001 September 11 Attack helped Medina succeed in revolutionizing the information exchange at the CIA. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn

Originals 6 Steve Jobs was wrong about Segway in that he was too confident about himself and he didn't ask for any feedback from all walks of people. Jobs didn't have experience in gyroscope (陀螺儀). Randy Komisar knew Segway could not replace cars. It replaces only walking, or cycling. Camen meant to replace cars in new cities of Beijing and Mumbai. Thoughts on Selecting Ideas Neil Blumenthal on...

Originals 5 Judging Creativity Dean Kamen invented Segway. He also designed iBOT which is a wheelchair that can climb stairs. Kamen thought Segway was to replace cars, like cars replaced horses. Kamen did wrong in that he didn't think of feedbacks from prospective customers. Beethoven judged his own music wrong. Kissing Frogs Dean Simonton found that the originals didn't have the brightest ideas b...

Originals 4 2000 Segway was invented. Steve Jobs said it was the most exciting technology since computer. Jeff Bezos said the inventor has a product so revolutionary he'll have no problem selling it. Inventor of Segway was described as modern Thomas Edison. Segway fell short of people's expectation toward it. Around 1984, Seinfeld was written by two writers. The first 100 people who viewed it didn...