Fostering the right environment for innovation
Keep these ideas in mind:
- If we want to come up with new ideas as individuals, we have to consider ourselves as part of a system.
- Tolerance for divergence is crucial for creativity.
- Invention is not the natural state of things, it is an exception. Inertia will always act towards discouraging creativity.
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