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How Great Ideas Happen: The Hidden Steps Behind Breakthrough Success

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“Creative success isn’t about waiting for genius to strike. It’s about searching widely until you find an idea worth mining.”
― George Newman, How Great Ideas Happen: The Hidden Steps Behind Breakthrough Success

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“Just as a bee samples and digests the nectar from a whole field of flowers to produce a new kind of honey—which is part flower and part bee—a poet produces a poem by sampling and digesting the best authors of the past.”
― George Newman, How Great Ideas Happen: The Hidden Steps Behind Breakthrough Success

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“Creative success depends far more on how people draw on the ideas all around them than on their innate ability.”
― George Newman, How Great Ideas Happen: The Hidden Steps Behind Breakthrough Success

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