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The Key to Creating Remarkable Things
What is the one simple change you can make to vastly
improve your creative output? It starts with aligning your focus with your real
priorities…
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The 40-30-30 Rule: Why Risk Is Worth It
If you're not risking failure, you're not risking enough. Why pushing outside of your comfort zone is a crucial part of the creative process.
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Be Solutionary, Not Revolutionary
Too often, we look for answers in the "big ideas." Yet the greatest innovations frequently spring from a series of small, incremental solutions.
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Fight Against Your Short-Term Rewards
From a young age, we are ingrained with a powerful short-term reward system. Yet, to make bold ideas happen, short-term rewards must be transcended.
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Avoid The Trap of Business Narcissism
When it comes to our own lives, we are often prone to thinking that every calamity or challenge that we encounter is a one-off, or "special case".
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Insights For The Interns Among Us
Rod Berg, Associate Director of Career Services at Parsons Design School, explores ten ways to land your dream internship in the creative world.
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Follow Passion, Not The Buck
The current economic climate provides the perfect impetus to start that passion project.
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Send Ideas to the Graveyard
Most ideas are like bad relationships: you know you have to move on but the idea of letting go seems too unbearable to handle.
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Stop Focusing on Visionaries
The vast majority of
new products fail; and the
root of the problem is the visionary’s tendency to focus on fellow
visionaries.
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Question Your Elders
While we don't want to waste our time reinventing the wheel, it's also true that new insights often question the conventional wisdom of our elders.
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Rely on Initiative, Not Experience
One’s past experience is typically regarded as the best indication of future success. But is it really the best way to judge a candidate?
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Breaking Schoolhouse Habits
Our years of formal schooling have created habits that actually set us back when it comes to productivity and pushing ideas forward.
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