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Be ready to work with others. Hang out with creative people and see how many more ideas you start to have yourself. Make your learning active whenever you
Barbara Oakley PhD • Learning How to Learn: How to Succeed in School Without Spending All Your Time Studying; A Guide for Kids and Teens
conceptual and experimental. Conceptual
Peter Sims • Little Bets: How breakthrough ideas emerge from small discoveries
This isn’t to suggest that all original ideas come from beginners. To the contrary, expertise is valuable in idea generation, but experts shouldn’t work in complete isolation, the lone genius lore be damned. Experts also benefit from intermittent periods of collaboration, particularly when amateurs are brought into the mix.
Ozan Varol • Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life
Collective intelligence begins with individual creativity. But
Adam Grant • Hidden Potential
Ronald Burt’s analysis of social networks and organizational innovation, see his “Social Contagion and Innovation” and Social Origins of Good Ideas.
Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
Who succeeds in forming and leading a Great Group? He or she is almost always a pragmatic dreamer. They are people who get things done, but they are people with immortal longings. Often, they are scientifically minded people with poetry in their souls, people like Oppenheimer, who turned to the Bhagavad Gita to express his ambivalence about the ato
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networks—in part, because networks have been shown to be more creative and adaptable than hierarchial systems.
David Ehrlichman • Impact Networks: Create Connection, Spark Collaboration, and Catalyze Systemic Change
Great Groups have a tendency to give rise to others.
Patricia Ward Biederman • Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration
revise their thinking based on input from others, so he turned the classroom into a challenge network. Every week—and sometimes every day—the entire class would do a critique session.