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is one of my favorite books. amazon.com/Where-Good-Ide youtube.com/watch?v=0af00U

Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation

Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation

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The aptitude to do something new is very different from intelligence. Both Steven Johnson and Ken Stanley have explored how extraordinary outcomes can emerge by doing something orthogonal to past experiences.