Creativity comes easier within constraints.
When we hear a story, the neural activity increases fivefold, like a switchboard has suddenly illuminated the city of our mind.
Simplification often makes the difference between good and amazing.
Effort for the sake of effort is as foolish a tradition as paying dues. How much better is hard work when it’s amplified by a lever? Platforms teach us skills and allow us to focus on being great, rat...
FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS, people from every corner of the planet have flocked to New York City for the reason Frank Sinatra immortalized: to prove they could make it. The allure, the prestige, the strugg...
The secret to harnessing momentum is to build up potential energy, so that unexpected opportunities can be amplified.
10x progress is built on bravery and creativity instead. Working smarter.
Google was in the water when the waves of Internet traffic came because it was tinkering with new ideas under the umbrella of Google’s famous 20% Time. 20% Time is not Google indigenous. It was borrow...
Hands-on learning and the use of tools, he says, helps us to want to learn, to get rapid feedback, and to actually grasp math better than memorizing facts from the bottom up.
I see this book as a simultaneous hat tip and counterpoint to some of the great success and innovation literature out there (check out shanesnow.com/ booklist for my recommendations). It’s a re-analys...
If you had an Internet connection and lived in North America at the time, you may have seen it. Vasquez is the man behind the Double Rainbow video, which at last check had 38 million views. In the cli...
If you want people to buy your product, you have to get them to care about your story.
In an age of platforms, creative problem solving is more valuable than computational skill. To
In the end, Castro’s revolutionary message reached a massive audience through a superconnector—a radio—but the rebels won the people’s hearts because they showed that they sincerely cared. The movemen...
Increasingly in today’s culture, hacking is something done not just by criminals and computer scientists, but by anyone who has the capability to approach a problem laterally. (This is the original us...
Indeed, equal amounts of research support both assertions: that mentorship works and that it doesn’t. Mentoring programs break down in the workplace so often that scholarly research contradicts itself...
Intuition is the result of nonconscious pattern recognition, Dane tells me. However, his research shows that, while logging hours of practice helps us see patterns subconsciously, we can often do just...
Why fit in when you were born to stand out?
Kids there have much more sense that they’re going to have to construct their own future, Wagner says. They’re taught to be entrepreneurs of their own lives. Instead of standing passively on an educat...
Lateral thinking doesn’t replace hard work; it eliminates unnecessary cycles.
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