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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
4 min read ⌚ How Non-Conformists Move The World It is hard to be original when there is so much skepticism surrounding you. In our summary of “Originals,” we show you how you can “package” your originality so others will see it. We cast a light on how tactical and strategic you have to be to […]
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 […]
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. […]
4 min read ⌚ Aha Moments, Creative Insight, and the Brain Did you ever wake up in a middle of the night, just to put your “insane” ideas on paper, because you thought that they were a sign of pure inspiration and intuition? In either case, we solve the dilemma of the aha moment in […]
6 min read ⌚ Transforming Books and the Reading Experience Let us guess: you’re reading this on your mobile phone or on a tablet. But, wait a minute, you say: that was as easy as guesses go! After all, you don’t even have a hardcopy version of your website summaries! (Quick mental note: there should […]
17 min read ⌚ The Power of Passion and Perseverance Remember that time you started doing that something you loved and you gave up after only a few days? Then the disappointment came, and after a while, depression settled in. Why should it have been any different? You had the talent, you had the time, and […]
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