“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”
Standing on the shoulders of giants is a metaphor which means “Using the understanding gained by major thinkers who have gone before in order to make intellectual progress”
Six steps of Standing on the Shoulders of Giants:
- Identify a “giant”, not a chupchick. Intuition will guide you - important enough subject for you.
- Identify the enormity of the area not addressed by the giant. Reality gives the signals that so much more can be done. You are aiming for a broader, not a more confined, area than what was addressed by the giant.
- Get on the giant’s shoulders. Gain the historical perspective - understand the giant’s solution better than he did.
- Identify the conceptual difference between the reality that was improved so dramatically by the giant and the area untouched.
- Identify the wrong assumption.
- Conduct the full analysis to determine the core problem, solution, et.