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creativity in his book Borrowing Brilliance. According
exercise he calls 180-degree thinking—which is “thinking wrong” with a different name. In his exercises,
Design and author of the book Disrupt, talks
What we learn from those kids is that there’s no substitute for quickly trying things out to see what works.
book The Innovator’s Dilemma, the idea
regularly is What should we stop doing? Company
Dan question
entrepreneurs can find ideas to pursue by asking themselves, What is something I believe that nearly no one agrees with me on? If self-examination doesn’t work,
the better question to ask about any new venture is, Will this make people’s lives meaningfully better?
brainstorming so that it’s about generating questions instead of ideas. Interesting findings about
questions generated by the group, by opening closed questions and closing open ones.
remember that one of the hallmarks of innovative problem solvers is that they are willing to raise questions without having any idea of what the answer might be. Part of being able to tackle complex and difficult questions is accepting that there is nothing wrong with not knowing.
it all starts with slowing down, stepping back, and trying to shift perspective in order to see your own life—and the problems, opportunities, and challenges worth tackling—more clearly.
“tech Shabbat,” on Saturdays,
What am I grateful for? and
question at that time was: Why is it that people who have so little and have suffered so much seem to be happier than other people who are more fortunate?
identifying25 one’s natural interests: When you’re in a bookstore, what section are you drawn to? The
Jacobs’s humorous first-person essays
The Year of Living Biblically).
If you force yourself to smile, you trick your brain and then you start to become happier.”
What would an optimistic, confident person do? That
author of Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career, the best
The only way to get any traction on polarizing issues is to attract people on both sides, “not bully them into submission.”
get out of your bubble. Follow someone you disagree with on Twitter.”
Feiler, author of The Secrets54 of Happy Families, dramatically
What went well in the family this past week? What could we do better? What things will we commit to working on in the coming week? Updating an idea that
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