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Don’t Start From Scratch: How Innovative Ideas Arise
- Starting from scratch is usually a bad idea.
from Don’t Start From Scratch: How Innovative Ideas Arise by James Clear
Supritha S added 2y ago
- Too often, we assume innovative ideas and meaningful changes require a blank slate. When business projects fail, we say things like, “Let's go back to the drawing board.” When we consider the habits we would like to change, we think, “I just need a fresh start.” However, creative progress is rarely the result of throwing out all previous ideas and ... See more
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Supritha S added 2y ago
- There wasn't a magical moment when the animal kingdom said, “Let's start from scratch and create an animal that can fly.” The development of flying birds was a gradual process of iterating and expanding upon ideas that already worked.
from Don’t Start From Scratch: How Innovative Ideas Arise by James Clear
Supritha S added 2y ago
- Thomas Thwaites set out to build a toaster from scratch. The Toaster Project, as it came to be known, ended up looking more like a melted cake.
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Supritha S added 2y ago
- When you are dealing with a complex problem, it is usually better to build upon what already works. Any idea that is currently working has passed a lot of tests. Old ideas are a secret weapon because they have already managed to survive in a complex world.
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Supritha S added 2y ago
- The most creative innovations are often new combinations of old ideas. Innovative thinkers don't create, they connect. Furthermore, the most effective way to make progress is usually by making 1 percent improvements to what already works rather than breaking down the whole system and starting over.
from Don’t Start From Scratch: How Innovative Ideas Arise by James Clear
Supritha S added 2y ago
- The most creative innovations are often new combinations of old ideas. Innovative thinkers don’t create, they connect. Furthermore, the most effective way to make progress is usually by making 1 percent improvements to what already works rather than breaking down the whole system and starting over.
from Don’t Start From Scratch: How Innovative Ideas Arise by James Clear
Jenna Guarascio added 2mo ago
- Starting from scratch is usually a bad idea.
Too often, we assume innovative ideas and meaningful changes require a blank slate. When business projects fail, we say things like, “Let’s go back to the drawing board.” When we consider the habits we would like to change, we think, “I just need a fresh start.” However, creative progress is rarely the re... See morefrom Don’t Start From Scratch: How Innovative Ideas Arise by James Clear
Jenna Guarascio added 2mo ago
- The process of human flight followed a similar path. We typically credit Orville and Wilbur Wright as the inventors of modern flight. However, we seldom discuss the aviation pioneers who preceded them like Otto Lilienthal, Samuel Langley, and Octave Chanute. The Wright brothers learned from and built upon the work of these people during their quest... See more
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Supritha S added 2y ago