On Innovation
If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you don’t bring forth what is within you, what you don’t bring forth will destroy you.”—Gospel of Thomas.)
Elizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
“Dunbar's research suggests one vaguely reassuring thought: even with all the advanced technology of a leading molecular biology lab, the most productive tool for generating good ideas remains a cirele of humans at a table, talking shop. The lab meeting creates an environment where new combinations can occur, where information can spill over from o
... See moreTo make your mind more innovative, you have to place it inside environments that share that same network signature:
networks of ideas or people that mimic the neural networks of a mind exploring the adjacent possible.
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Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From
A new idea is a network of cells exploring the adjacent possible of connections that they can make in your mind.
-Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From
“Innovative environments are better at helping their inhabitants explore the adjacent possible, because they expose a wide and diverse sample of spare parts - mechanical or conceptual - and they encourage novel ways of recombining those parts.
-from “Where Good Ideas Come From” by Steven Johnson
“Good ideas are not conjured out of thin air; they are built out of a collection of existing parts, the composition of which expands (and occasionally, contracts) over time.”
-“Where Good Ideas Come From” by Steven Johnson
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