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- Author: Rod Judkins
Highlights
Sometimes you succeed and sometimes you fail, but it’s important to try and see what happens. — location: 146
Creativity isn’t a switch that’s flipped on or off; it’s a way of seeing, engaging with and responding to the world around you. — location: 147
Try to develop an alternative way of thinking that can be applied to any challenge or project, no matter how far out of your comfort zone. — location: 149
Better to think new ideas than waste time trying to salvage old ones. — location: 171
Make the most of inexperience. A beginner has a fresh perspective. The amateurish and unprofessional are open to new ideas: they’ll try anything. They don’t know how things “should” be done, and haven’t yet become entrenched in a particular method. Nothing is “wrong” for them because they don’t know what is “right.” — location: 184
An expert constantly refers to past experience. Whatever has worked in the past, the expert repeats. — location: 187
experts claim to have many years’ experience. What they actually have is one year’s experience repeated many times. — location: 189
To breathe fresh air into yourself or your company, spend a day working on something that’s valuable, but not what you’re “supposed” to be working on. — location: 190
Switching jobs creates an environment that encourages innovation. Constantly — location: 191
Constantly search for new ways of doing the same things and do not repeat what you already know. Don’t do things in the usual way; do them in the unusual way. — location: 192
WHATEVER I KNOW HOW TO DO, I’VE ALREADY DONE. THEREFORE I MUST ALWAYS DO WHAT I DO NOT KNOW HOW TO DO. —Eduardo Chillida — location: 193
Creative thinking is like a muscle that needs to be strengthened through exercise. — location: 216
NOT EVERY PERSON HAS THE SAME KINDS OF TALENTS, SO YOU DISCOVER WHAT YOURS ARE AND WORK WITH THEM. —Frank Gehry — location: 223
Practice is important, but it has to be good practice. Bad practice is thoughtlessly repeating something to perfect it. Good practice is putting time into imaginative improvement. — location: 250
We only get out what we put in. — location: 254
A meeting about finance is not about finance, it’s about meetings: their format, internal politics, hierarchies and the way things are managed and governed. The most common decision at a meeting is to have another meeting. — location: 275
the more you understand your medium, the more you can use it to your advantage. — location: 274
Most people are passive consumers who never analyze the medium — location: 288
“In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different,” — location: 297
“Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.” — location: 300
“The most courageous act is to think for yourself. Aloud,” — location: 303
Everyone is searching for originality. Ironically, it is right there within them, but most people are — location: 308
It is more important to be the best version of yourself than a bad copy of someone else. — location: 315
To produce anything of greatness, you have to be proactive and generate it, not sit around and wait. — location: 331
Most people sleepwalk through life, never asking themselves what they’re doing, why or if it really matters to them. They absorb the values of their culture, parents and friends, and accept them unquestioningly. — location: 332
Do you want to be a writer? Stop sitting waiting for your big idea—just start writing. — location: 340
Doing what matters is what matters. — location: 342
If others respond strongly to something you’ve done, that’s positive—even if the reaction is negative. — location: 361
To be a successful person you often have to create a strong foundation with the bricks others throw at you. — location: 363
THE ONLY THING WORSE THAN BEING TALKED ABOUT IS NOT BEING TALKED ABOUT. —Oscar Wilde — location: 365