Interviewing Customers No. 1

Howdy!

For this assignment, I had to interview 5 strangers.

Potential opportunity: Improving the whole "getting ready for bed" process. Whether it be making an attachment for the wall to turn off the light from afar or a way to fall asleep faster.

People with this problem: Pretty much anyone that sleeps.  So everyone.

Interview strategy: I mostly approached the interviewee, told them my name and about this project, and asked my questions.

Questions asked: What is your general going to bed process? Are there any pet peeves you have?

Here is the video containing brief interviews with complete strangers. Enjoy!

Reflection: Overall,this process was easy and difficult in different ways.  Although I do not have difficulty talking to people, approaching strangers after being told to not talk to them as I grew up made it slightly challenging.  I did appreciate the people that did talk to me for they were all very nice.

Week 4 Reading Reflection

Howdy! Here is a reflection on the Week 4 Reading.

1. What was the biggest surprise for you in the reading? In other words, what did you read that stood out the most as different from your expectations? 
• I didn't realize that creativity was able to be broken down into as many categories/"arenas" as it is.  I usually considered creativity to be a very general term.
2. Identify at least one part of the reading that was confusing to you.
• I've taken a Business/Entrepreneur class that covered creativity and entrepreneurship before, so I didn't really find anything that was confusing to me.  Everything was pretty straight forward.
3. If you were able to ask two questions to the author, what would you ask? Why?
• Have you followed the phases of the creative progress or have you followed a different process?
• I would ask this because there are many ways to come up with an idea for a product or service and I am curious to see how he would have gone through this process.
• What kind of creative projects have you done to nurture your creativity skills?
• I'm assuming the author must have outstanding creativity to write about it in a textbook, so I would want to know how to get to his level.
4. Was there anything you think the author was wrong about? Where do you disagree with what she or he said? How?
• There was not anything that I thought the author was wrong about.  In the other Creativity books I've read, what was written is the general consensus.

Top 5 World Problems

Howdy!  In this post, I am ranking the Top 5 of my World Problems list and their solutions.



Problems (from most to least serious):

1. World Hunger/Thirst
• One cannot solve the worlds problems if there are people dying from lack of basic needs.
2. Pollution
• One cannot solve the worlds problems if there is no livable world. 
3. Lack of Available Education
• If people are uneducated on global and local affairs, one cannot expect them to do anything to help solve the problems.
4. Racism/Intolerance
• I feel like this kind of goes without saying, but it's a problem that people are killing each other over their race and beliefs...
5. Overpopulation
• Overcrowding can cause resources to be expended unnecessarily.

Solutions (from most to least possible):

1. Overpopulation - Make contraceptives more available to prevent unwanted pregnancies. Find more renewable resources to support our growing population.
• This the most possible because there are different organizations that provide contraceptives (This is not in reference to abortions.  Separate issue.) already.
2. Lack of Available Education - Offer better financial aid to those that need it.  Or lower tuition in general. Make extracurricular programs not included in the price of tuition (EXTRAcurricular.  Key word extra. Seriously).
• Second most possible because there are plenty of businesses/foundations that could provide different scholarship/sponsorship opportunities to aspiring students that need it.  
3. Pollution - Implement more laws that regulate emissions from vehicles, recycling, etc.
• Since laws have to go through different divisions of the government, this could take a long time to implement, but it's totally doable. 
4. World Hunger/Thirst - Donate food/money to people that are less fortunate either locally or farther away to help make these resources more accessible.  Build clean water pumps (see: https://www.thirstproject.org/).
• There are a lot of people without resources to sustain themselves.  It would take a lot of time to help everyone.
5. Racism/Intolerance - Help people understand that we were all created equally and should be able to coexist. 
• This is the least possible because people are stubborn and are not quick to give up their ideals regardless of how wrong they are.