The starting point is to challenge three misconceptions... 1) only special people are creative
2) creativity is only about certain activities like advertising, design and marketing
3) you're either creative or not, and that there's not much you can do about it
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creativity is the process of having original ideas: innovation is putting them into practice.
via Linchpin:
p. 14: There are no longer any great jobs where someone else tells you precisely what to do.
p. 19: If we can put it in a manual (standards) we can outsource it.
p. 56: Train people to live without a map.
p. 58: Linchpins are able to embrace the lack of structure.
p. 66: Personal interactions don't have asymptotes.
p.67: ..standardization meets spec, ... art is never defect free..
p. 71: It's damaging to have to put on a new face for work (school), the place we spend our days.
p. 101: Creativity is an instinct to produce. - Bruce Ario
p. 104: Thrashing is apparently productive brainstorming and tweaking we do for a project as it develops.... Professional creators thrash early.
dear ed...are we helping kids to become indispensable? Check out Mindset by Carol Dweck, via Bob Dillon. no not Bob Dylan
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