Watch and review the following video: Manoush Zomorodi, How Boredom Can Lead to Your Most Brilliant
Ideas (Vancouver, BC: TED2017, April 2017), 16:14.
https://www.ted.com/talks/manoush_zomorodi_how_boredom_can_lead_to_your_most_brilliant_ideas?
language=en#t-9339
In reference to this video, see also Chapter 11 of the textbook, pp. 342-4, 346-7 and, 350-3.
What is your opinion on some of the ideas presented in this TED Talk and the way in which these ideas are
presented?
How to Proceed:
This assignment is not a research paper. Rather, it is more like an opinion piece or editorial that you might write
for a newspaper. Still, you MUST REFERENCE THE RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE TEXTBOOK, and you
can use an outside source or two if you want.
This assignment is to be submitted to the appropriate forum on the BlackBoard LMS at the end of the week in
which it is due.
Evaluation:
I will evaluate you on:
- Grammar, diction, spelling, format, and structure – it is possible to lose significant grades here, so
proofread and edit! - How well you meet the above objectives and properly answer the questions;
- How informative and interesting the submission is within the parameters of the assigned topic;
- How much effort you appear to have put into writing it;
- Your integration and application of course ideas from the TextBook.
Sample Solution