The Power of Possibilites

I have just reccently finished reading Where Good Ideas Come From and I loved it. It was refreshing to read about the origin of innovation. Steven Johnson did a great job using anaolgies, imagery, and metaphors to explain where good ideas come from. Although each chapter provided interesting explanations to the origin of many great ideas, my favorite chapter was "the Adjacent Possible."

A few of my favorite quotes from the chapter:
"The adjacent possible is a kind of shadow future, hoverng on the edges of the present state of things, a map of all the ways in which the present can reinvent itself" (31).
"The strange and beautiful truth about the adjacent possible is that its boundaries grow as you explore those boundaies" (31).
"Think of it as a house that magically expands with each door you open" (31).
"The adjacent possible is as much about limits as it is about opeings" (36).

Through this chapter I discovered the power of possibilities. Although adjacent, meaning only certain changes can happen, the fact that there is even a one percent possibility of it happening, creates even more potential for something great to come out of that possibility. The idea that something, even the tiniest thing, has the potential to amount to something else with the power of possibility.