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Category: Creativity

The Geography of Genius Summary The Geography of Genius Summary

The Geography of Genius Summary

6 min read ⌚  A Search for the World’s Most Creative Places From Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley Are you ready to travel around the world in… well, 400 pages and few days? No? What about in thousand words and merely ten minutes? Sounds better, we know. So, without a further ado, the summary of […]

The Freaks Shall Inherit the Earth Summary The Freaks Shall Inherit the Earth Summary

The Freaks Shall Inherit the Earth Summary

5 min read ⌚  Entrepreneurship for Weirdos, Misfits, and World Dominators Have you ever felt like you don’t belong anywhere on this planet? Or daydreamed that there are other people like you and that some of them have succeeded? Have you ever wanted to meet them and get some guidance from them? Well, Chris Brogan […]

The Evolution of Everything Summary The Evolution of Everything Summary

The Evolution of Everything Summary

6 min read ⌚  How New Ideas Emerge, aka How Small Things Transform the World By now, you already know that evolution is how all life came to be on this planet. What you don’t know is that evolution may be responsible for everything else, whether it’s language or government. Don’t believe us? Why don’t […]

So Good They Can’t Ignore You Summary

So Good They Can’t Ignore You Summary

4 min read ⌚ Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love People will not stop telling you to follow your passion. It is a romantic notion, really, but it is always smart? In our summary of “So Good, They Can’t Ignore You” we tell you why following your passion is not always […]

A Matter of Taste Summary A Matter of Taste Summary

A Matter of Taste Summary

6 min read ⌚ How Names, Fashions, and Culture Change It’s quite paradoxical, when you think about it! In a world which has acknowledged Frank Sinatra’s “My Way” as its unofficial anthem, it’s getting harder to be unique! Fashion styles seem to come and go incessantly: blink, and you’ll miss the last one. “A Matter of […]

Where Good Ideas Come From Summary

Where Good Ideas Come From Summary

12 min read ⌚  MicroSummary: The pencil, the toilet flush, the battery. Have you stopped to think where all these good ideas come from? In what kind of environment are they born? What sparks these disruptions? Steven Johnson explores this in the book “Where Good Ideas Come From” and identifies seven patterns that drive real innovation. […]

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