Donald MacKinnon asked a number of architects whom they considered to be the most creative ones in their profession. Then he went to these “creative” architects and asked them to describe to him what they did, from the moment they got up in the morning to the moment they went to bed at night. And then he went to a number of uncreative architects (though he didn’t tell them that that was why he was talking to them) and asked them exactly the same question. The conclusion he came to was that there were only two differences between the creative and the uncreative architects. The first was that
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