Maximize Your Potential: Grow Your Expertise, Take Bold Risks & Build an Incredible Career (99U Book 2)

by Jocelyn K. Glei

Focus

Conditioning

findings and shared their most difficult setbacks with the rest of the team. In any research laboratory, most experiments are failures or at best yield unexpected results. During these regular meetings, Dunbar observed that the researchers shared their results and also developed analogies trying to describe what might be causing their problem. (Analogies are actually quite common in scientific insight. Consider how Watson and Crick used the twisted ladder analogy to describe the double-helix structure of DNA molecules.) Dunbar noted that as the researchers developed analogies, and as other researchers built on the ideas around those analogies, the solutions to their problems seemed to simply emerge. Sometimes, a researcher would spend a week vexed by a problem, and the solution would seem to present itself in just ten minutes of discussion with peers. Dunbar also found that the labs with more diverse teams of individuals—people with different areas of expertise who were working on very different types of projects—generated more creative insights and produced more significant research. But just how diverse did a team need to be for optimal creativity? Dunbar’s research didn’t answer this question. For that we have to move from the microbiology lab to the Broadway stage. No Broadway production is created alone. Even so-called “one-man shows” require a crew of people to help with writing, staging, lighting, and everything that goes into taking a production, from the initial i...

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