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The most creative artists were those who focused on asking the right question.

Keith Sawyer • Zig Zag

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

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

James Mulholland

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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

In other settings, teams are formed of people with complementary areas of expertise.

Mark A. McDaniel • Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

Go for a walk; cultivate hunches; write everything down, but keep your folders messy; embrace serendipity; make generative mistakes; take on multiple hobbies; frequent coffeehouses and other liquid networks; follow the links; let others build on your ideas; borrow, recycle, reinvent. Build a

Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From

It’s rare for people to develop compelling and coherent ideas on their own. Individuals and teams flourish best in a vibrant milieu that brings together comment and criticism, competition with peers, and the feedback of an informed audience.

Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination

This is one of the paradoxes of creative collaboration. Great Groups are made up of people with rare gifts working together as equals. Yet, in virtually every one there is one person who acts as maestro, organizing the genius of the others. He or she is a pragmatic dreamer, a person with an original but attainable vision. Ironically, the leader is