Tag: ideas

  • The Power of One Good Idea

    Ideas separate us from the Apes and, sometimes, from the Idiots too.

    1:01pm
    2 blocks east of the Mississippi


    Last night on a whim I pulled out my workbook from David Deutsch’s Idea Power course.

    The course and workbook help you look at problems in a new light so that you can come up with unique approaches and solutions.

    Because, as David writes in the workbook’s introduction:

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  • Do YOU play “Last Bite”?

    Not how I expected fame, but it’s a delicious way to make an enemy.

    11:04am
    East of the Mississippi


    A Technique for Producing Ideas, a book by James Webb Young, has a 5-step process for generating ideas:

    Research.

    Cram it in your brain.

    Let your subconscious brew.

    Hit gold with a Eureka! moment.

    Test and refine your new idea.

    But there’s another way I want to tell you about.

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