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The Croods

2013

After their cave is destroyed, a caveman family must trek through an unfamiliar fantastical world with the help of an inventive boy.

98 min

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Tasting the Universe: People Who See Colors in Words and Rainbows in Symphonies

What happens when a journalist turns her lens on a mystery happening in her own life? Maureen Seaberg did just that and lived for a year exploring her synesthesia.

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Maureen Seaberg
2011
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05:16

How to Collaborate with Creatives

In this episode, I’m back with 3 tips on how to collaborate with other creatives. Many times, proximity can work against you and you need someone with some distance to the project.

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2018
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The Secret of the Highly Creative Thinker: How to Make Connections Others Don’t

People who are good at creating ideas are good at seeing connections.

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Dorte Nielsen, Sarah Thurber
2019
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FindCenter Quotes ImageWe are often better served by connecting ideas than we are by protecting them.

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Steven Johnson
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FindCenter Quotes ImageLearning any new skill involves relatively brief spurts of progress, each of which is followed by a slight decline to a plateau somewhat higher in most cases than that which preceded it . . . the upward spurts vary; the plateaus have their own dips and rises along the way. . . .

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George Leonard
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FindCenter Quotes ImageUltimately, nothing in this life is ‘commonplace,’ nothing is ‘in between.’ The threads that join your every act, your every thought, are infinite. All paths of mastery eventually merge. [Each person has a] vantage point that offers a truth of its own.

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George Leonard
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FindCenter Quotes ImageThis is how great intellectual breakthroughs usually happen in practice. It is rarely the isolated genius having a eureka moment alone in the lab. Nor is it merely a question of building on precedent, of standing on the shoulders of giants, in Newton’s famous phrase.

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Steven Johnson
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Collaborative Problem Solvers Are Made Not Born – Here’s What You Need to Know

Whether it’s a high-tech company figuring out how to shrink its carbon footprint, or a local community trying to identify new revenue sources, people are continually dealing with problems that require input from others.

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Stephen M. Fiore
2019
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The Neuroscience of Creativity, Perception, and Confirmation Bias | Beau Lotto | Big Think

To be creative, we have to unlearn millions of years of evolution. Creativity asks us to do that which is hardest: to question our assumptions, to doubt what we believe to be true. That is the only way to see differently.

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2017
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