Quotes by Jonah Lehrer

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“Insights, after all, come from the overlap between seemingly unrelated thoughts. They emerge when concepts are transposed, when the rules of one place are shifted to a new domain.”
— Jonah Lehrer, Imagine: How Creativity Works
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“The only way to maximize group creativity—to make the whole more than the sum of its parts—is to encourage a candid discussion of mistakes. In part, this is because the acceptance of error reduces ...”
— Jonah Lehrer, Imagine: How Creativity Works
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