Taught on-site at Wizard Academy or at your place of business by Roy H. Williams and Mark L. Fox.
(Among his many accomplishments, Mark was chief engineer of the space shuttle.)
THIS CLASS HAS NO CONNECTION WITH THE DA VINCI CODE BOOK OR MOVIE.
You'll return home from this class with 40 Universal Answers, a series of specific techniques and perspectives that will give you the ability to 'think outside the box' at the snap of your fingers. In short, you'll be handed the keys to innovation.
These are powerful keys you'll use every week for the rest of your life.
You'll become widely known as the person who can always find a solution.
There's no end to what you can do with this knowledge.
It all began with Genrich Altschuller: (Oct. 15, 1926 – Sept. 24, 1998)
In his study of hundreds of thousands of patents, Altschuller determined there are only about 1,500 basic problems. And each of these can be solved by applying one or more of the 40 universal answers. That's right. Every answer to every problem is found within the 40 Principles of TRIZ. Originally created to solve engineering and design problems, the 40 Principles of TRIZ are now being successfully applied to social issues and business dilemmas.
Was Leonardo da Vinci instinctively using the 40 Answers of Genrich Altschuller's TRIZ?
Come and decide for yourself.
The legendary curiosity of Leonardo da Vinci was horizontal, not vertical. Lenny looked for the pattern, the connectedness of things. He never studied narrow and deep. Would you like to learn to see the world as he did?
In this 2-day class you'll be taught how to apply the 40 Answers to every problem you face.
We'll teach you to see through the eyes of Leonardo Da Vinci, Buckminster Fuller, Genrich Altschuller and the other giants of innovation who rocked our world. We may even have a chance to peer into the magical world of our Nobel laureate friend, Dr. Kary Mullis, as he invents the antidote to bio-terrorism. Then we'll look at the ancient rivalry of Niccolo Machiavelli, author of The Prince, and Baltasar Gracian, the anti-Machiavellian author of The Art of Worldly Wisdom. If you're willing to stay up late, we'll even take a look at Christopher Alexander's Pattern Language.
This is a class for the hard-core curious.
In addition to learning The 40 Answers and how they apply to everyday problems, you'll see a multimedia overview of the world as it was during the life of each of our Heroes of Innovation. Having arrived at the correct time and place, you'll be taught how to see the types of possibilties these men saw.
Here's a quick glance at Leonardo Da Vinci, Buckminster Fuller and Kary Mullis:
Leonardo da Vinci: (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519)
Infinitely curious and inventive, Leonardo was a polymath: an architect, anatomist, sculptor, engineer, inventor, geometer, musician, futurist and painter. In fact, he is considered to be one of the greatest painters who ever lived, famous for his realistic paintings, such as the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, as well as for influential drawings such as the Vitruvian Man. Leonardo conceived ideas vastly ahead of his own time, notably conceptually inventing the helicopter, a tank, the use of concentrated solar power, the calculator, a rudimentary theory of plate tectonics, the double hull, and other ideas too numerous to mention in this short paragraph. Relatively few of his designs were constructed or were feasible during his lifetime, as modern scientific approaches to metallurgy and engineering were only in their infancy. But Da Vinci greatly advanced the state of knowledge in the fields of anatomy, astronomy, civil engineering, optics, and the study of water (hydrodynamics). – Wikipedia
Buckminster Fuller: (July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983)
In 1927, at the age of 32, Buckminster Fuller stood on the shores of Lake Michigan, prepared to throw himself into the freezing waters. His first child had died. He was bankrupt, discredited and jobless, and he had a wife and new-born daughter. On the verge of suicide, it suddenly struck him that his life belonged, not to himself, but to the universe. He chose at that moment to embark on what he called "an experiment to discover what the little, penniless, unknown individual might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity." Over the next fifty-four years, he proved, time and again, that his most controversial ideas were practical and workable. During the course of his remarkable experiment he:
was awarded 28 U.S. patents,
authored 28 books,
received 47 honorary doctorates in the arts, science, engineering and the humanities,
received dozens of major architectural and design awards including, among many others, the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects and the Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects,
created work which was gathered into the permanent collections of museums around the world,
circled the globe 57 times, reaching millions through his public lectures and interviews.
Buckminster Fuller is best known for the invention of the geodesic dome – the lightest, strongest, and most cost-effective structure ever devised. The geodesic dome is able to cover more space without internal supports than any other enclosure. It becomes proportionally lighter and stronger as it grows larger. The geodesic dome is a breakthrough in shelter, not only in cost-effectiveness, but in ease of construction. In 1957, a geodesic dome auditorium in Honolulu was put up so quickly that 22 hours after the parts were delivered, a full house was comfortably seated inside enjoying a concert. Today more than 300,000 domes dot the globe. – Buckminster Fuller Institute
Dr. Kary Mullis: (Dec. 28, 1944 – still living happily in Southern California)
Winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his invention of polymerase chain reaction (PCR,) Mullis is a man whose mind works like Da Vinci, Fuller and Altschuller. He is the author of Dancing Naked in the Mind Field and is a graduate of the Magical Worlds curriculum at Wizard Academy. Read his Nobel Prize lecture at NobelPrize.org
