Cumulative effect of ideas
I think the concept expressed by the Interference Effects of Ideas diagram in Jiro Kawakita's "Idea Method" is a very good one, but the diagram itself is not easy to understand. So I drew a new diagram.
https://gyazo.com/54f823c392e8344612a22ac575b88b83
First, look at concrete data, and then ideas will come from there.
https://gyazo.com/72c80aeed579bd6b0df5c9f1df17e7aa
Some people tend to take the words "idea" and "conception" too seriously. but "ideas" also includes things like "this is what I mean.
In this article, once you've read it, you'll think, "Is this what I mean?" and read on as if it were a hypothesis that "this is what I mean.
That this remains the case Jiro Kawakita.icon calls it "underdeveloped.
https://gyazo.com/b6155b0809ab6919f9d983390331c0b4
Another time, another set of data, and the same old "is this what I think it means?" can come up.
https://gyazo.com/e11881b46abccad9c685ac7d52dc0e5c
When this happens, that "is this what I mean?" hypothesis becomes stronger.
This is what Jiro Kawakita.icon calls "gaining stability"
https://gyazo.com/abc059657c953d18e0e8df5e3a6b402a
On the other hand, some seemingly contradictory previous hypotheses may emerge.
https://gyazo.com/db0c62c7f9aed4d843b2ec788c3bb6d0
At this point, if you think about it for a while and can't resolve the discrepancy, you'll say, "Well, neither hypothesis was correct.
This Jiro Kawakita.icon calls the "downfall"
https://gyazo.com/df2d81972e8786f32920f8262a407223
In some cases, when you think about it, you can come up with a non-contradictory explanation for what appears to be a contradiction.
This is very important.
After a connection is discovered between the past and something that is not the same, it can develop further from there
https://gyazo.com/25aeab330a8cba335301002d7085f258
Jiro Kawakita.icon] calls this "[Achievement of inclusiveness
https://gyazo.com/8c44caf55f9079d52610a682b8b68a23
It was hard to highlight in the enclosure, so I traced a different color.
Concepts not in my diagram but in Jiro Kawakita.icon's diagram
The idea born from the first set of data and the idea born from the second set of data were combined to create a new idea.
Combined with an idea born from the third set of data, a new idea was born.
Combine that with the ideas generated from the fourth set of data, and even more new ideas were born.
After I got to this point, I looked back at the record of when I worked with the first group of data, and I found even more new ideas connected to ideas that were undeveloped
This is an interesting event and I know you wanted to paint a picture of how this could happen.
Maybe it was hard to understand how you crammed four different explanations of the phenomenon into one sheet.
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