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All articles filed in ‘Where Good Ideas Come From’

creative process inspiring people mindset paths + processes rules for living video

if brainstorming doesn’t work, what does?

(Video link here.) We’re getting a little tired of pat ideas about how creativity works, based on “research”. Take Jonah Lehrer’s quick little film debunking the practice of brainstorming: getting a group of people in a room to throw out ideas without have their ideas criticized. The gist is that RESEARCH has shown that every…

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steven johnson on cultivating good ideas (daily)

(Video link here.) Steven Berlin Johnson’s Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation is one of those books that you can open ANYWHERE and find something inspiring and useable in your creative life. In this BBC interview, he gives the gist (or one of them) and some ideas for cultivating an environment for…

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‘where good ideas come from’

Steven Berlin Johnson’s Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation is so full of smart thinking, fat salient bits, illuminating stories and revelations…so full of deep understanding of the true flux-and-flow of ideas and innovations, and so compellingly written, that we are knocked out. We’ve dog-eared and marked-up our advance copy to…

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