Friday, April 30, 2010

A Whole New Mind( Chapter 6, 125-141 )

1.what surprised me?
-I was surprised by his drawing. I thought it was his kid's drawing, when I looked at the drawing without reading a book; however, it was his drawing of himself.
-I was also surprised by his improvement in five days. I bet his instructor was quite expensive.

2.what did you already know?
-I had an idea that the world is requiring a person, who can think and work across boundaries.

3.Brand new words

opt - to make a choice

forte - a strong point

hieroglyphic - pictographic script of the ancient Egyptians

hyphenate - to join by hyphen?

elude - to avoid or escape

androgynous - being both male and female; hermaphroditic?

linguist - a person who is skilled in several languages

choreographer - a person who creates dance compositions

marshal - a military officer og the highest rank

dyslexic - any of various reading disorder

deluge - flood

4. what changes are you going to make?
-I will try to combine two existing ideas because the "most powerful ideas come from simply combining two existing ideas nobody else ever thought to unite"(133) like pencil and eraser.

5.Further questions?
- What is negative space? I do not understand it.
- Who makes the real money? the inventors or the one, who uses the inventors?

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