By Kenneth O. Stanley, Joel Lehman
Why does sleek lifestyles revolve round pursuits? From how technology is funded, to enhancing how little ones are informed -- and approximately every little thing in-between -- our society has turn into enthusiastic about a seductive phantasm: that greatness effects from doggedly measuring development within the relentless pursuit of an bold objective. In Why Greatness can't be Planned, Stanley and Lehman commence with a shocking clinical discovery in man made intelligence that leads eventually to the belief that the target obsession has long gone too a long way. They make the case that groovy success cannot be bottled up into mechanical metrics; that innovation isn't pushed by means of narrowly targeted heroic attempt; and that we might be wiser (and the results greater) if as a substitute we whole-heartedly embraced serendipitous discovery and playful creativity.
Controversial at its middle, but refreshingly provocative, this ebook demanding situations readers to contemplate lifestyles with no vacation spot and discovery with no compass.
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Why start so slow? But the world always works this way. Before anyone had explored the part of the great room filled with computers, no one could know what was even possible there. You have to visit before you can depart. In short, the stepping stones to faster computers were not yet known in 1946 because they had not yet been discovered, just as we do not yet know the stepping stones that may lead to computers two million times faster than today’s. Stepping stones are portals to the next level of possibility.
The weight of objectives on our thinking even impacts the way we talk about topics like animals in nature. After all, whenever evolution is discussed, we view animals through the lens of survival and reproduction, evolution’s assumed objective. Even many algorithms, or programs that run inside computers, are designed to work towards some specific objective, such as finding the best search result or playing a better game of chess. In fact, these kinds of algorithms are quite common in artificial intelligence and machine learning.
They demonstrate that the best results don’t need to come from trying to achieve anything, which is fun because such light-hearted whimsy so sharply contrasts with how we’re taught to pursue our dreams. For example, one day Grace Goodhue was watering flowers only to look up and see Calvin Coolidge in the window shaving with nothing on but underwear and a hat. Luckily for him, she laughed, catching his attention [26]. Coolidge ever targeted men who shave in their underwear, or that future President Coolidge ever thought his best moment would involve being caught almost naked.