Category: Creativity
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Interesting conversations enhance knowledge
Conversations with people, if done appropriately, can be knowledge enhancing endeavours, even if the topic is something you know a lot about. Knowledge resides in our brains in a tacit form, and only a certain part of it becomes explicit when we are exercising the use of the same. Many people wonder how we can…
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What makes an entrepreneur unique?
Many people live under the illusion that they want to be entrepreneurs one day, and most never do. The confusion here is about what entrepreneurship really is. Most people think it is a profession, and just like adding another job to your Linkedin profile, you can start “doing” entrepreneurship. According to them, the manifestation of…
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Ring the bells that still can ring
Leonard Cohen crooned, rather perfectly:Ring the bells that still can ringForget your perfect offeringThere is a crack, a crack in everythingThat’s how the light gets in These are the kinds of lines that set you free. Free from the compulsion of producing something perfect. Free from the obligation of creating something that can not be…
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Are you the drunk searching under the streetlight?
Are you the drunk searching under the streetlight? The streetlight effect is a type of observational bias. It comes from the often-quoted story about the drunk and the streetlight and appears first in Mulla Nasruddin tales. It goes like this: A policeman sees a drunk man searching for something under a streetlight and asks what…
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The Tyranny of Perfect
Leonard Cohen crooned, rather perfectly:Ring the bells that still can ringForget your perfect offeringThere is a crack, a crack in everythingThat’s how the light gets in These are the kinds of lines that set you free. Free from the compulsion of producing something that is perfect. Free from the obligation of creating something that can…