Week 4 Reading Reflection

The chapter had a couple exercises they mentioned to do. I thought this was kinda cool, because to develop most things, you do need to practice. One asked to come up with some functions for "An egotistical staff member" or "the office gossip". This was different for me because I initially feel that both these things tend to be just negatives. But the point was to try to turn negative things to useful functions.

It mentioned that most adults only use 2 to 10 percent of their creative potential. I don't know how something like creative potential can be quantified. Stating that also somewhat implies that their is a hard limit to how creative someone can be. Which seems very strange considering that creativity, especially in Entrepreneurship, is about ignoring established limits and pushing through with ones own ingenuity.

I'd be curious what the ideas the author came up with for the exercise about the "An egotistical staff member" and "the office gossip". I imagine we may of started with similar ideas, but we each could of gone a different direction after getting into it, which would be cool to see. The chapter also talks about innovations that occurred due to the 9/11 attacks. I would want to ask if they think there may be an ethical line to entrepreneurship when it comes to something like that. Could you take too much of an advantage on peoples fears, or is that just like any other trend to benefit from.

I did not like how the author tried to quantify creativity, like I mentioned in the second paragraph. I understand the want to assign numbers to everything, I am an engineer, but I've always viewed something like creativity to be above being able to quantify. That's just my perspective, and obviously it's open to interpretation, but that's how I feel.