My name is Time, I am the only Thai who joins the GLE community. I study at Thammasat University in the faculty of social entrepreneurs. The interest in solving social issues from my faculty leads me to this program with some basic knowledge about the social innovation process called ‘design thinking’.
We went to Stanford University on the third day of the program, it was very excited to visit the design school in Stanford which was a place I was very passionate about. The GLE community and the ESI group had a chance to mix up and attend a short process of design thinking together. Design thinking is a process of innovative creative ideas we come up to solve the issues or problems we are striving for answers. It goes through in stages from Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype and Test. However, it does not always necessary to follow in order as it is a process of back and forth if some of the stages doesn’t work it can always be reframe or there can be changes in the steps and position.
This methodology of design thinking enables us to understand the problem from it’s roots and to solve for something far-away, outreached or impossible in order to make those ideas become possible for the future.
I believe this opportunity is not an easy opportunity to get, there are not many people who understand and knows how to explain the process efficiently. Therefore, this unique and challenging method enables us, the students to understand something more deeply and being able to step out of our comfort zone with the courage to think out of the box.
This is all about taking risks and trying, exploring new opportunities and challenges we have never done before, all of these skills enables us and provides us with the ability of being a great leader in the future.
I believe this opportunity is not an easy opportunity to get, there are not many people who understand and knows how to explain the process efficiently. Therefore, this unique and challenging method enables us, the students to understand something more deeply and being able to step out of our comfort zone with the courage to think out of the box.
This is all about taking risks and trying, exploring new opportunities and challenges we have never done before, all of these skills enables us and provides us with the ability of being a great leader in the future.