Breaking patterns
All great innovations and evolutions have come from someone thinking “outside of the box.” Too often we humans get stuck in patterns. We have a disease called comfort. Once we’ve gotten accustomed to something and it works reasonably well we stick to it afraid to try anything else.
Perhaps afraid isn’t the right word. Some people are afraid, others are complacent. We ALL do it, most of us do it every single day. I do it.
I’m not saying that it’s abhorent to stick to a routine, or continue a practice that works. I am saying, however, that we need to stop and re-examine these things regularly. We need to apply new perspectives to all of our habbits to see if we may rework our thoughts and ourselves to something better. We need to take risks, be explorers, cross the lines.
I’ve collected a few recent stories of people thinking differently. I’m hoping this will spur others to do the same. I’m hoping it will spur me to do the same.
- The Bacterial Orchestra: a self-organizing evolutionary musical organism. It consists of several audio cells. Every cell listens to its surroundings and picks up sounds trying to play them back in sync with what it hears. It can be the background noise, people talking or sound played by other cells.
- Unicycle Tank: One man amphibious vehichle design to go 100mph, and 280 miles on one tank of gas… designed in 1933
- Writing automaton: A clockwork doll that writes in a very life like fashion. Built in 1772.
Comment by MOM — January 28, 2007 @ 11:26 am
What is a habbit?? is it perhaps a creature that moves in on you when you aren’t looking and nests in your life to cause you to become complacent? Or maybe it just hops into view and you grab it and take it home because it seems so cute and cuddly. If so, would a habbit only become a bad Habbit if you overindulge and ’spoil’ it??? Just wondering. MOM