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Keith Sawyer says, “You cannot be creative alone. Isolated individuals are not creative. That’s not how creativity happens.”
Jeff Goins • Real Artists Don't Starve: Timeless Strategies for Thriving in the New Creative Age
Great groups ship. “They are places of action, not think tanks or retreat centers devoted solely to the generation of ideas.” Warren characterized the successful collaborations he studied as “dreams with deadlines.
Tom Kelley • Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All
People who learn to extract the key ideas from new material and organize them into a mental model and connect that model to prior knowledge show an advantage in learning complex mastery. A mental model is a mental representation of some external reality.
Mark A. McDaniel • Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
Kevin Kwok has a schtick about how friend groups underinvest in themselves. A group of people with high mutual trust, shared interests, and low coordination costs have already solved for many of the issues that otherwise prevent humans from accomplishing great things.
Nadia Asparouhova • 27: Friend groups
Let me phrase what I’ve been saying in this essay in a slightly different way. What you want to create is a distributed apprenticeship in the art of being you. You want to assemble a set of influences you can observe and imitate, and peers and mentors that can give you feedback on how well you converge with that model of yourself.
Henrik Karlsson • First We Shape Our Social Graph; Then It Shapes Us
Warren Bennis Santa Monica, California November 1996
Patricia Ward Biederman • Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration
Innovators are usually synthesizers—they synthesize everything they know and add their own personal talents, and out comes something new.