The best ideas arise from a passionate
interest in commonplace things.
The statement above comes from the
perspective that the best thinkers, inventors, and
innovators are the way that they are because they
explore passionately the interesting things around
them. Yes, I would say that this is definitely true.
I understand best the things that interest me, but
it is only the things with which I am familiar with
and understand in my surroundings. It would be
difficult to take passionate interest in the things
which I did not have available in my environment.
For example, let’s consider some “idea” people
in history. The person who invented the basketball
hoop, or the game of volleyball, or ice skates, all
had interest in those things before they had their
brilliant ideas. I do know that the inventor of the
basketball hoop used to coach a basketball team
of young boys, and they would throw the ball
into a fruit basket that was nailed to the wall.
Obviously, a basket has a bottom to it, and they
would have to fish it out after every successful
throw. So he had the brilliant idea of cutting out
the bottom of the basket. It seems so simple to us
now, but nobody had ever played basketball like
that in his day.
The phrase, “commonplace things” can be
rather misleading, I believe. I think every person
has slightly different “commonplace things” in their
environment depending on their interests, their
financial status, and availability of items. What is
commonplace for one person may never be known
by another. I take passionate interest in things
having to do with sewing using patterns, fabrics
and threads. However, my mother and
grandmother are excellent seamstresses and
I had the availability of learning from them. It was
a “commonplace thing” for me. I have had some
wonderful ideas come out of my passion for this
kind of art.
Orville and Wilbur Wright had a passionate
interest in things having to do with flight, a rather
ordinary thing for the sorts of birds who can fly
with their wings, but certainly not people. If I had
lived during the Wright brothers’ time, I would
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probably not have had the same passionate
interest in figuring out how to make humans fly,
because it is not something that I would have
thought possible. But their dreams and visionary
possibilities were much bigger than mine would
have been at that time. They not only had a
passionate interest but they were willing to
experiment, to risk financial ruin and ridicule,
and even put their lives on the line. So while it is
true that the best ideas arise from a passionate
interest in commplace things, there also has to be
an element of daring to challenge “norms” and not
being able to just accept things as they are. There
has to be a desire to make things better and to
improve on the present.
There also has to be the element of not being
afraid of failure. Most ideas do inevitably fail.
Einstein is viewed today as being one of the most
brilliant thinkers and “idea” people in all of history.
But nobody really talks about how many times his
ideas failed. The number is quite amazing. Many
people are afraid of failure, so even though they
make take a passionate interest in something
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commonplace, and have some great ideas,
they may never carry them through because of
uncertainty that they would work. We must be
willing to try!
So, yes, it is true that the best ideas arise
from a passionate interest in commonplace things,
because these are the things that we know, these
are the things that we understand, and the things
that we want to explore in even more depths. But
there must be more elements involved than just
taking interest in something. We must be willing
to face risks of many kinds in order to separate the
ideas that fail from the ones that will triumphantly
succeed.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, may, really, so, while, as to, for example, i think, kind of, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 32.0 19.5258426966 164% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.4196629213 129% => OK
Conjunction : 26.0 14.8657303371 175% => OK
Relative clauses : 21.0 11.3162921348 186% => OK
Pronoun: 81.0 33.0505617978 245% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 84.0 58.6224719101 143% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 12.9106741573 46% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3263.0 2235.4752809 146% => OK
No of words: 658.0 442.535393258 149% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.95896656535 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.06473204393 4.55969084622 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65970516396 2.79657885939 95% => OK
Unique words: 291.0 215.323595506 135% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.442249240122 0.4932671777 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 954.9 704.065955056 136% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 24.0 6.24550561798 384% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 9.0 4.99550561798 180% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 17.0 1.77640449438 957% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 32.0 20.2370786517 158% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 63.2450590956 60.3974514979 105% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.96875 118.986275619 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5625 23.4991977007 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.0 5.21951772744 57% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 76.0 4.97078651685 1529% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 23.0 10.2758426966 224% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.400534527862 0.243740707755 164% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0992303248518 0.0831039109588 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0931744798065 0.0758088955206 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0759803474245 0.150359130593 51% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.115060385151 0.0667264976115 172% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 14.1392134831 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 48.8420337079 122% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.1743820225 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.49 12.1639044944 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 6.86 8.38706741573 82% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 100.480337079 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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