Why Pixar Is So Successful

In Creativity, Inc., Ed Catmull explains why Pixar has been able to produce such massively successful animated films over the years. As an author, I wanted to see what I could learn from their success in my attempts to write better books.

Here are the three main ideas I found useful from Catmull’s book:

The movies always start out bad.

Catmull provides example after example of successful movie that started out with a lot of bad ideas. Some of them were so bad that the movie eventually became...