#reflection wk6

Empathy to me is putting myself in someone else's shoes. For me this is hard to do in the heat of a moment. For my project it was easier to try and think about people in situations different than my own and reflect upon that. But then when I was hanging out with some strangers they were being considerate of other people and other people's feelings. This got me heated, and I forgot to remember I do not know their background on why they are acting like they were.  I believe having the ability to have empathy to others in the spur on the moment is a wonderful skill everyone should practice.

I feel I came up with a creative problem for the project 1 because as I searched, many people feel and think inconvenience of recycling but there was not solution so far so that I think it could be a creative problem. However, I found that there is all in one recycling system already existing and it was little frustrated me. Moreover, I think I used empathy to define the problem. I believe, because, not only me, but many people feel the problem I defined consider this as a problem. One of my friend also said whenever she was trying to recycle the fact that there are so many different kinds of bins and it bothers her even she sometimes has a difficulty of recycling. I believe it is not only problem for me and my friend but many other people so I think I used empathy on identifying problem.

I'm having a difficult time thinking of things to write about.  I guess I'll take us back to the first or second weeks of class when Brad Hokanson came and talked.  One of the things he told us to do was to take a different path home that day.  I didn't take a different path, but I just realized that I recently started to take a path through Rapson now that cuts my time outside in half.  I realize now how important it is to switch things up once in a while and try new things.  Time to be more adventurous!  

The presentations this week got me thinking about how successful and helpful products come into being. At first, all of the problems being presented seemed trivial and not worth my attention, but as I kept thinking about some of them this week, I began to realize that all successful and helpful products must have started with ideas like these ones. Perhaps many of the ideas we think are silly are only silly because they challenge our ideas of normal. It seems to me like, if all of these ideas were turned into real products, some of the strangest ideas might be the most successful.