Many (or most) of my mechanical engineering learning experiences at MIT, bored me to tears. One exception was an undergraduate course called "Creativity," which possibly influenced my entrepreneurial future.
The experience was clearly designed to push our class beyond the framework of standard thinking, and it likely influenced my future thinking processes. On day one of this course, our professor handed out a 150-page manual, which he had written to describe a planet called Arcturus IV. We immediately assumed that this planet was fictitious, because it possessed different characteristics than Earth, for example gravitational pull, soil and atmospheric characteristics, weirdly conceived inhabitants, and so forth.
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Author:Gideon Gartner
