15) Dr. Shockley Appeared on NHK Program

 
Shockley and Kikuchi in the pre-meeting on their talk program in the studio

William Shockley who was the key person of the invention of transistor at Bell Telephone Laboratories was invited to Japan by Institute of Electric Engineers of Japan in 1963 and he appeared on NHK for the 45 minutes' talk program with Makoto Kikuchi. They had been acquainted with each other. The photograph shows their pre-meeting on the talk program in the studio.
According to Kikuchi, Shockley carefully described his theory of "Creative Failure Methodology" in the talk program. Known as a great genius for science, he described himself as a scientist who had made most mistakes and failed most, and he advocated his "Creative Failure Methodology." To put it into practice, he started "Meeting on Failures" to analyze failures in a positive manner and to find out creative solutions. He always started his opening speeches at the meetings, saying "Let us frankly talk about experiences of failures. The purpose of this meeting is to learn lessons from mistakes and failures and to get a clue for creative solution."

It reminds me that Andy Grove who was one of founders of Intel said "Those who do not make failures will not take risks. Those who make failures will learn lessons from failures and shall become valuable persons."
(Photo: by courtesy of Makoto Kikuchi)

 

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