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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...

Originals 3 The word "entrepreneur" was coined by Richard Cantillon, meaning "someone who takes risks." One of the four poor students who founded Warby Parker, Neil Blumenthal, said they wouldn't drop out of school. "We're not sure it's a good idea, and we don't know if we will succeed. We're working on it in our spare time." Joseph Raffiee and Jie Feng found entrepreneurs who keep their original...

Originals 2 The problem with defaults Michael Housman found buying a PC, Internet Explorer is built into Windows. If one buys a Mac, it comes with Safari. But if you choose to use Firefox or Chrome, you are not accepting default. "Accepting the default is easy, but it doesn't ask us to look at new ways of doing things." (接受任何“預設”都很簡單; 但是預設並不會導致我們以新的眼光來看待事物.) Dave Gil...

Originals 1 Warby Parker online glasses was established in 2010. It was established by 4 poor students who didn't know anything about glasses or fashion. Luxottica controls more than 80% of the glasses market. Warby Parker researched Zappos online shoe company. Warby Parker decided to sell glasses that would cost $500 in stores for $95 online, and they give another pair of glasses to someone in th...

Tales of Great Heroes 19 Northern giants captured Helio's cows with horns of gold and carry them off for food. Alcyoneus was the King of giants. As long as he stayed in the land of Phlegra, he was immortal. Alcyoneus told giants one of them should have Aphrodite to be his wife, another Artemis, and he should have Hera. Hercules wrestled Alcyoneus out of Phlegra and clubbed the giant king to death....

Tales of Great Heroes 18 Hercules asked Laomedon to send him the two magic horses that he had won. Laomedon sent him ordinary horses that couldn't run like wind over land or sea. Leaving young wife Deianira in Trachis, Hercules brought Iolaus with him to find Telamon in Salamis. Telamon's young wife gave birth to a baby boy. Hercules wrapped his lion-skin cloak around the boy Ajax. Hercules brough...

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Tales of Great Heroes 16 A voice called to Jason that he had to go to Island of Aeaea for the Enchantress Circe, Medea's aunt, to clean them of their crimes. Near Aeaea there was another island called Capri, on which lived the Sirens. Sirens were once women but now they were women with feet and tails of birds and had wings. Sirens sang sweetly that anyone who heard them would forget everything els...

Tales of Great Heroes 15 Jason's father was the King of Iolcus but defeated by brother Pelias. Pelias had been told that one day a man with only one shoe would come to Iolcus and kill him. Jason grew up in a cave taken care of by centaur Chiron. On his way to River Anaurus Jason met an old woman who asked Jason to carry her across the river. One of Jason's shoes came off in the mud at the bottom o...

Tales of Great Heroes 14 Theseus was son of Aegeus, King of Athens, and Aethra, daughter of King Pittheus, and was born in Troezen. Aegeus left a big rock and a sword and a pair of shoes under it. Aegeus said to Aethra if the baby was a boy then wait till he could lift the rock, bid him to come to Athens. On his way to Athens, Theseus met Periphetes the Clubman. Theseus was the only man who could...

Tales of Great Heroes 13 Zeus meant for Hercules to free Prometheus. Hercules had to free Prometheus first then ask P how to find the Golden Apples. H shot the eagle who pecked P every day with only one shot of arrow. H told P to wear Z's ring on the finger forever to show that P is tied to Z. Golden Apples grew on the tree that was a wedding present to Hera by mother Earth. The tree grew in the m...

Tales of Great Heroes 12 Upon arriving at Amazon, Hera disguised as an Amazon and told the other female warriors that the Queen had been kidnapped by a ship of pirates just now. Hercules captured Hippolita's sister Melanippe, Queen Hippolita asked for peace in exchange of her sister. Hercules had the Queen's belt and returned to Greece. The ship saw a young woman Hesione, daughter of the King of T...

Tales of Great Heroes 11 King Pelius of Iolcus had a beautiful daughter Alcestis. Prince Admetus was the most brave and the most handsome among the many suitors. Before Admetus departed to ask for Alcestis's hand, a strange farmer came to Admetus's kingdom to do the farming without getting any pay. After the 1-year tenant, Admetus went up hill to look for the stranger farmer. Admetus saw that all...

Tales of Great Heroes 10 Eurystheus the coward king's first task: the Nemean Lion The lion was fallen from the moon with toughest skin. With good attitude, a shepherd showed H the shortest way to the den. H's arrow couldn't enter the skin nor did H's sharp sword. H remembered his killing of the Cithaeron lion and started to club the Nemean. Nemean Lion growled into its den. H choked the lion to de...