Stand on the shoulders of giants

According to Kleon, creative minds shouldn’t worry about reinventing the wheel. Instead, you should use existing ideas as a springboard until you find your unique voice and style.

By trying to be creative and unique, we often stand in our own way and preve...

• Start with finding out what the best- and worst-case scenarios are. Then think about what the most realistic scenario is. 
• Divide up the problem into smaller problems and find a solution for every little thing. 
• As you are going through these motions, you'll slo...

It's the approach most of us use when we don’t actually realize that we are solving a problem. 

We just execute a solution we already know – or we ask another expert to do so for us.

This is the methodical execution of already known tasks, towards completion of an alr...