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

Keith Sawyer • Zig Zag

Grothendieck knew what he found interesting and productively confusing because he had spent three years observing his thought and tracing where it wanted to go. He was not at the mercy of the social world he entered; rather, he “used” it to “further his aims.” (I put things in quotation marks here because what he’s doing isn’t exactly this delibera... See more

Cultivating a State of Mind Where New Ideas Are Born

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

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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

Patricia Ward Biederman • Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration

Group Genius: The Creative Power of Collaboration

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Paulus, Paul B., and Bernard Arjan Nijstad. Group Creativity: Innovation Through Collaboration. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From

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

Creativity Is Inherently Collaborative