From “Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation” by Steven Johnson If the commonplace book tradition tells us that the best way to nurture hunches is to write everything down, the serendipity engine of the Web suggests a parallel directive: look everything up.
From “Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success” by Adam Grant Dormant ties offer the access to novel information to novel information that weak ties afford, but without the discomfort. As Levin and colleagues explain, “reconnecting a dormant relationship is not like starting a relationship from scratch. When people reconnect, they still have
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From “What Makes You Come Alive: A Spiritual Walk with Howard Thurman” by Lerita Coleman Brown For more than four hundred years, a vibrant Quaker commitment to the mystical practice of silence has persisted. Many people remain unaware of the contributions of Quakers to American history and religion. Staunch promoters of the “still small voice,”
From “The Speed of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything” by Stephen M. R. Covey The “4 Cores of Credibility” are the foundational elements that make you believable, both to yourself and to others. You will recognize them as the same elements that would prove or destroy your credibility as an expert witness in
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From “Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation” by Steven Johnson Scholars, amateur scientists, aspiring men of letters – just about anyone with intellectual ambition in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was likely to keep a commonplace book. The great minds of the period – Milton, Bacon, Locke – were zealous believers