Defining Success: Crash Course Kids #18.2 - By Crash Course Kids
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| 00:09 | problems , problems , problems , problems . We've been | |
| 00:13 | learning a lot about engineering lately and engineering always starts | |
| 00:16 | with a problem that needs to be solved , but | |
| 00:18 | I'm tired of talking about problems . So let's talk | |
| 00:21 | about solutions instead , we've already learned about how engineers | |
| 00:24 | define problems . Now it's time to discover how they | |
| 00:27 | define success . I don't mean how they define success | |
| 00:30 | . Like in general , like success is graduating from | |
| 00:32 | a good school or success is getting a good bonus | |
| 00:34 | check at work or successes , winning a lifetime supply | |
| 00:37 | of macaroni and cheese . Although I'm not gonna lie | |
| 00:40 | , that sounds like success to me . When engineers | |
| 00:42 | define success , they do it in relation to the | |
| 00:44 | problem they're trying to solve . So for example , | |
| 00:46 | what does a successful solution to my problem ? Look | |
| 00:48 | like ? The big question we're asking today is what | |
| 00:51 | makes a solution successful ? Okay , let's back up | |
| 00:58 | a bit a solution is what again , a solution | |
| 01:00 | is something that an engineer designs or builds to solve | |
| 01:03 | a problem here . She has some solutions that engineers | |
| 01:05 | have come up with include the telephone , a solution | |
| 01:08 | to the problem of how people in different places can | |
| 01:10 | communicate with each other or the refrigerator . A solution | |
| 01:12 | to not being able to keep food fresh for long | |
| 01:14 | periods of time or light bulbs , a solution to | |
| 01:17 | not being able to see at night using something that's | |
| 01:19 | safer , brighter and more reliable than an open flame | |
| 01:21 | every day . Engineers design and build solutions , but | |
| 01:24 | how do they decide which of the many potential solutions | |
| 01:27 | that they brainstorm will be the most successful ? I | |
| 01:29 | think an example would be helpful here and we've already | |
| 01:31 | invented a fake problem . So why not invent a | |
| 01:33 | fake solution to back to the canyon ? You know | |
| 01:35 | that insanely deep one with no bridge and the raging | |
| 01:37 | river at the bottom of it ? Yeah , that | |
| 01:39 | one . The problem , we define that that spot | |
| 01:45 | was how do we fly across this canyon ? I'll | |
| 01:47 | be are standing engineer again being a good engineer . | |
| 01:50 | I know it's time to identify the criteria for my | |
| 01:52 | solution basically . I need to figure out what things | |
| 01:55 | my solution needs to do in order to be considered | |
| 01:57 | successful . Think of it like making a checklist number | |
| 02:00 | one it should get me to the other side and | |
| 02:02 | let me be more specific . It should get me | |
| 02:03 | to the other side alive . Number two it the | |
| 02:07 | thing that gets me to the other side should be | |
| 02:08 | something I currently have or can easily access number three | |
| 02:12 | . It would be nice if I could reuse whatever | |
| 02:13 | it is . One time on the other side now | |
| 02:15 | if Superman's fortress of solitude was nearby , I'd snag | |
| 02:18 | him and make him fly me over this canyon . | |
| 02:20 | No prob but sadly I don't have access to Superman | |
| 02:23 | secret layer . So like any other engineer I have | |
| 02:26 | to make do with what I have . So what | |
| 02:28 | do I have ? I've got the tent that I | |
| 02:29 | camp with and that's about it . You guys , | |
| 02:32 | I can make a hang glider out of my tent | |
| 02:34 | . It's a resource I already have and if I | |
| 02:35 | build it properly it will get me to the other | |
| 02:37 | side alive . Which is ultimately where I wanna be | |
| 02:40 | . Plus bonus , I can dismantle the glider on | |
| 02:42 | the other side and use the pieces for their original | |
| 02:44 | purpose , keeping me sheltered from lions and tigers and | |
| 02:47 | bears . Oh my eye . So Superman is a | |
| 02:53 | solution in that if you were real and if I | |
| 02:55 | could somehow contact him to get him to carry me | |
| 02:57 | over this canyon , he could get me to the | |
| 02:59 | other side alive . But he's not the most successful | |
| 03:02 | solution because he doesn't meet all of my criteria . | |
| 03:05 | He's not currently with me and I can't easily find | |
| 03:07 | him . I mean the whole point of a secret | |
| 03:09 | layer is that its secret . So a hang glider | |
| 03:11 | meets all of my criteria , which means that's our | |
| 03:13 | solution . We'll fly across this very big canyon with | |
| 03:16 | a hang glider and of all the solutions that an | |
| 03:18 | engineer can brainstorm to whatever problem here she has the | |
| 03:21 | most successful one . The one that meets all of | |
| 03:24 | or most of the criteria is the one that engineers | |
| 03:26 | actually attempt to design . Now . Actually making a | |
| 03:29 | hang glider out of a tent is a different step | |
| 03:30 | in the engineering process . So it's one that we | |
| 03:33 | kind of fortunately don't have to mess with today because | |
| 03:35 | I have zero idea about how to build or fly | |
| 03:38 | a hang glider . And anyway , remember that this | |
| 03:39 | is a totally fake made up solution . Don't go | |
| 03:42 | jumping into a canyon or anything with a tent . | |
| 03:44 | Okay , we're here to solve problems , not create | |
| 03:46 | new ones . |
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