I found it so helpful to go back and revisit all those concepts in your post, especially as you laid them out so clearly and cleanly.

Your questions open up so much room for discussion, which I look forward to here and in class. The thing that fascinates me most about this process is that it takes away the myth (or at least the relative unlikelihood) that insight is some ethereal gift, fully-formed and delivered only to chosen minds. Much more often, insight (at least as I’m beginning to understand it) is a collection of incorrect assumptions, uncertain turns, and helpful failures that culminate in something special.

Personally, I often put pressure on myself to “solve” things or have some staggering insight. Thanks to the principles of design thinking, I now know why I am so bad at those things! Sometimes my brain is like an annoying autocorrect: it fills things in before I even have time to understand them fully. No, WHY WOULD I BE SPELLING “FLAN BABY”?????

As for whether or not design thinking can be useful in other areas, all I can do is thank you for sharing that spectacular “design thinking and storytelling” article and get to work.