1. Intellectual Flowering” I start to think that solitary moments and solitary participants are no longer a necessary part of the definition. Flowering suggests “over a period of time”
2. What is cognitively arousing is the encouragement to share and associate thinking by many individuals as opposed to secretly “festering of an individual thought”. Johnson refers to this as “Connecting vs Protecting”
3. Innovation needs order in the disorder..strange as that may sound. When an environment is hectic with people communicating, there is a “chaos where ideas can come together (Johnson, 2010)
4. When a “liquid network” of people from different backgrounds, different ideas and different interests share a common space, intellectual and physical, we start to build a network of invigorating and inspiring conversations, and when we can have this sort of ”architecture of space” (Johnson, 2010) we can take away from the predictable outcomes that often arise from singular, solitary cognitive processes.
5. HUnch moments Johnson suggests that hunch moments actually “incubate” over a longer period of time and refers to them as “Slow Hunch”.