“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.” - Christopher Morley It was an experimental wine that Thierry had...
“To get what you’ve never had, you must do what you’ve never done.” - Harvey Mackay Many good ideas have been discovered because someone poked around in an outside industry or discipline, and applied what he found to his own field. For example, Dan Bricklin took the “spreadsheet” concept from accounting and turned it...
What Do You Want to Create? Perhaps the greatest myth about creativity is the idea that it’s a rare gift or genetic endowment possessed by only a few. We see an original painting, feel moved to our core by a piece of music, or read about an incredible scientific discovery and mistakenly conclude that...
Creativity: These are some other books on creativity that you might like. It is unlikely that you will learn new “techniques” because most of these have been covered in the required reading, but you might think you have because you find a particular anecdote or mode of presentation to be powerful. Browse away. Ackoff,...
Advancement only comes with habitually doing more than you are asked. Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity. Discipline is based on pride,...
“You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.” Albert Einstein “I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.” Albert Einstein “Technological change is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.” Albert Einstein “The intuitive mind is a sacred...