{"id":114,"date":"2012-06-25T16:57:38","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T15:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/lucillevalentine\/?p=114"},"modified":"2012-06-25T17:04:39","modified_gmt":"2012-06-25T16:04:39","slug":"on-being-receptive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/lucillevalentine\/2012\/06\/25\/on-being-receptive\/","title":{"rendered":"On being receptive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I was a bird, flying swooping diving and my beak was just slightly ajar, sometimes I would serendipitously scoop in an insect.\u00a0 And I would like it.<\/p>\n<p>But I am a human. This morning, while cycling to work I think I breathed in a gnat or other little insect that is more wing than body.\u00a0 If I were not so picky I would think mmm&#8230;. food that I didn\u2019t have to hunt or gather; just move through the fresh outdoor air and open my mouth a little.\u00a0 It was not just about being in the right place at the right time; I also had to be receptive.<\/p>\n<p>What did I do? Fpthptthpt.\u00a0 Of course.<\/p>\n<p>Entrepreneurs are people who make hay when the sun shines, who find problems and likely looking solutions for them.\u00a0 And an inventive mind likes nothing better than a really crunchy problem to solve.\u00a0 Then I come to a little phrase from Stanford Biodesign: Needs Finding, they teach people to find needs?\u00a0 On <a href=\"http:\/\/spectrum.stanford.edu\/page_listings\/innovations-pilots-program\">this website<\/a> the phrase \u201cBefore Biodesign fellows start prototyping or testing, they spend three months on <strong>clinical observation, asking questions, identifying needs, analyzing markets and brainstorming concepts<\/strong>.\u201d leaps out. \u00a0\u00a0What have I received?\u00a0 What nano concept has flown into my brain?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I was a bird, flying swooping diving and my beak was just slightly ajar, sometimes I would serendipitously scoop in an insect.\u00a0 And I would like it. But I am a human. This morning, while cycling to work I think I breathed in a gnat or other little insect that is more wing than &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/lucillevalentine\/2012\/06\/25\/on-being-receptive\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On being receptive<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1089,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/lucillevalentine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/lucillevalentine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/lucillevalentine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/lucillevalentine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1089"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/lucillevalentine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/lucillevalentine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/lucillevalentine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/lucillevalentine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/lucillevalentine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/lucillevalentine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}