365QOD-Day73

"Everything happened in a blur"- an eyewitness

This morning I watched a very interesting presentation on the brain.
As Dr. John Medina put it in a presentation at authors@Google:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IK1nMQq67VI















He defined the brain as:
The brain appears to have been designed to solve problems, related to surviving, in an unstable outdoor environment and to do so in a near constant motion.

In the book he presents twelve rules:
 Exercise -                    Rule #1: Exercise boosts brain power.
 Survival -                     Rule #2: The human brain evolved, too.
 Wiring -                       Rule #3: Every brain is wired differently.
 Attention -                   Rule #4: We don't pay attention to boring things.
 Short-Term Memory - Rule #5: Repeat to remember.
 Long-Term Memory -  Rule #6: Remember to repeat.
 Sleep -                         Rule #7: Sleep well, think well.
 Stress -                        Rule #8: Stressed brains don't learn the same way.
 Sensory Integration -    Rule #9: Stimulate more of the senses.
 Vision -                        Rule #10: Vision trumps all other senses.
 Gender -                      Rule #11: Male and female brains are different.
Exploration -                 Rule #12: We are powerful and natural explorers.

What I found interesting about his presentation at Google is that he spoke for about an hour.  During that hour he only spoke about two of the rules.  Using the formula for the number of combination with n=12(number of rules) and r=2(taken 2 at a time)
                        C=n!/r!(n-r)!=12!/2!(10)!=12*11/2=66 different presentations of two topics.

So the moral of the story is to create a piece of work from which portions can be used to create a new whole. The old saying that the whole is a sum of its parts is not true. One can make the subsets whole pieces by themselves.

Today's question is:
"What product that you create from which portions can be extracted into a whole new product?"