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To be innovative is to be on the lookout for new ways to get things done that make sense to you, and those who matter most to you, not every minute of every day, but over the course of a life.
Stewart Friedman • Leading the Life You Want: Skills for Integrating Work and Life
I wonder if all jokes boil down to the same pattern that eventually gets layered and complexified by veteran comedians. A joke is made by creating a frame with an embedded assumption, and then using a punchline to break the frame and reveal an implied truth. There are two layers of subtext, the assumption (the undertone), and the post-punchline tru
... See moreNovelty emerges from an individual mind, when it is judged by a committee, orthodoxy will usually prevail.
Hand Eysenck • Genius: The Natural History of Creativity (Problems in the Behavioural Sciences, Series Number 12)
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What's particularly impressive is that Jeff is so brilliant that it would be easy for him to state his thinking in complex ways that us mere mortals wouldn't grok. But true genius is stating the complex simply.
Remains of the Day • Compress to Impress
Adam Mastroianni • Why aren't smart people happier?
While we drown in innovation, we starve for introspection, the one quality that might allow us to truly see where we have been, where we are going, and what we must do to earn the trust of the investors.