This just blows my mind away! (college, degree, good, professor)

[Justme2010]

Was reading blogs at Harvard Business Review site, particularly one by Roger Martin on strategy etc. which brought me to "design thinking", in my comment, I wrote "concept mapping" etc, for some reason, I double checked wikipedia for its entry, and there we go, we have Joseph D. Novak, inventor of the concept, who's a Cornell Professor... but I've designed / supported such exact tool without ever knowing / heard of Professor Novak nor his concept...

And more, what's so interesting is, I have built a system, that to some degree resembled a proven learning strategy, called Cornell Method or Cornell Notes, again, prior to my undertaking, had never heard of it...

What an astounding coincidence, it is because Cornell produces an outstanding number of world class educators? I'm obviously taking a risk of blowing my own horn... but hey I'm compelled to write, to share what pops up at the moment...

[Sandpointian]

nice feeling, no? it shows how folks have common observations and resolutions. Also, it shows how true intellectual innovation is so very difficult.

S.

[Justme2010]

Sandpointian, thank you for your kind note. But I'm afraid the conventional procurement process is not my friend...

[stepka]

Um, JM, I read about the Cornell system of taking notes 40 years ago. How old are you?

[Ivorytickler]

I invented my own note taking system in college simliar to Cornell notes as well. I never thought Cornell invented it. I thought they just made it popular.

Sadly, I went one farther and invented my own, subject specific, short hand which I forgot years ago so all of those notebooks are useless . Well, it did get me through college.

What I hate is when I come up with something I think is really brilliant only to go to a seminar and find out that someone else already has a better version out there.

[Justme2010]

@stepka, I'm ageless

@Ivorytickler, one good method is not good enough ...