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The fatal misconception behind brainstorming is that there is a particular script we should all follow in group interactions.... [W]hen the compositio...more

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Even when alternative views are clearly wrong, being exposed to them still expands our creative potential. In a way, the power of dissent is the power...more

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The only way to maximize group creativity—to make the whole more than the sum of its parts—is to encourage a candid discussion of mistakes. In part, t...more

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The vocational approach at NOCCA (New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts) helps build grit in students. It teaches them how to be single-minded in p...more

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...Why are corporations so fleeting?...Instead of imitating the freewheeling city, these businesses minimize the very interactions that lead to new id...more

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Every creative story is different. And every creative story is the same. There was nothing. Now there is something. It's almost like magic.

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Money chases good ideas

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We see them most when we are o nnthe outside looking in

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In fact, most of us see perseverance as a distinctly uncreative approach, the sort of strategy that people with mediocre ideas are forced to rely on.

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It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry -- if they want to be successful, they need to learn how to persist and persevere, how ...more

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The great ages did not perhaps produce much more talent than ours,' [T.S.] Eliot wrote. 'But less talent was wasted.

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And so we keep on thinking, because the next thought might be the answer.

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...the imagination is unleashed by constraints. You break out of the box by stepping into shackles.