BrainPint - Great Ideas

Hi everyone,

This week we're talking about great ideas, the power of pomp and ceremony, as well as how to make normal conversations better.

Cheers,
Janel

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How To Make Normal Conversations Better
Practical tips for improving everyday conversations. Super helpful if you're looking to improve your personal or professional relationships and enhance your conversational skills. 

Quick picks:

• “Say more” and “care to elaborate” are magical phrases. You can also repeat what they said. “Work has been crazy lately.” “Work has been crazy lately?” That can do a lot. 
• The question “why is that important to you,” while more intense, can get you really far, really fast, if you sense a mood of openness, especially if you learn to ask it casually.
• Noting properties of the conversation within the conversation creates a sense of shared space and mutual understanding. “It’s really nice talking to you,” works, or, “I didn’t expect this to get so intense".

Where Do Great Ideas Come From?
Drawing on insights from history, psychology, and philosophy, Mario Gabriele challenges the myth of the lone genius and offers a compelling case for the power of collaboration in innovation.

How do you generate great ideas?

• Tolerate failure. To foster a creative environment, you must make yourself comfortable with failure.
• Cultivate a beginner’s mind. The novice can often find solutions to which the expert is blind.
• Motivate innovation. Hire the intrinsically motivated. A study showed that scientists that optimized for salary or job security were less innovative than those motivated by independence or the desire for an intellectual challenge.

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