If you can’t “hear” your inner voice speaking or you’re not sure how to trust your gut, begin to observe your reactions.
For example, when I look through application profiles for the Passion Experiment, I either feel a strong sense of giddiness about potentially working with someone or I...
Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But, since no one was listening, everything must be said again.
“Great works and great folly may be indistinguishable from the outset.” Wisdom from NASA’s Adam Steltzner, lead engineer at the Mars Science Laboratory and mastermind of the Curiosity rover landing system, at The New Yorker’s Big Story event.
Or, as Bertrand Russell famously put it, “Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
We are often led to believe that the more freedom we have the more creative we will be. Full creative license? Sweet. Unlimited budget? Awesome! No timetable? Even better.
Yeah, right.
I say embrace your constraints and draw out of them the very solution that sets you apart from the crowd.
Creativity isn’t magic. Part three of this four-part series explores how innovations truly happen.
Everything is a Remix Part 3 (by Kirby Ferguson)
For anyone than never discovers a deeper self-identity, based not on lack of mistakes but on courage, compassionate intelligence, commitment and creativity, life is a scary place made safe only by never getting into trouble, never breaking rules and never taking the risks that their hearts tell them they need to take.
#44 – How to learn from your mistakes « Scott Berkun
make more decisions & be prepared for the mistakes and failures you’ll inevitably make on the way to what you want.
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Establishing and keeping a routine can be even more important than having a lot of time. Inertia is the death of creativity.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently outlined a case arguing that America needs to address its ongoing “innovation deficit” and spur entrepreneurship and creativity in meaningful new ways.
How did we get here? Why is it that America has an innovation deficit? It’s simple: we have lulled ourselves into complacency. America is bored because we have made ourselves boring.
