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Paint & Pipette

We’ve gotten creativity all wrong. Profound misunderstandings of how creativity works keep us from our most breakthrough thinking. Paint & Pipette illuminates the often counterintuitive tactics that drive differentiated outcomes across industries and disciplines.

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Creative Geniuses Embrace Contradictions

“ Smart people are a dime a dozen & often don’t amount to much. What counts is being…

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Look For What’s Wrong

“Creativity is the unexpected collision of two apparently unrelated frames of reference.”
- Arthur Koestler, author of…

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Explore Analogies

One of the fundamental tenets of the design thinking worldview is that a problem should not be taken as given, but rather…

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When You’re Stuck, Stall

In her uproarious memoir, Bossypants, Tina Fey describes one of the most pivotal decisions in her career (whether…

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Seed Your Subconscious

“ It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep…

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Dig Through Your Junk

Maya Angelou once said, “I can’t work in a pretty surrounding. It throws me.”

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Indulge A Little Irresponsibility

One of the privileges of teaching at Stanford is that we get to engage a global audience. And one of…

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Make Connections

Steve Jobs once said, “Creativity is just connecting things.”

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Map Your Mind

“You know that fantastic feeling you get after a great brainstorm? How do you get that on your own? How do your best personal…

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Request Options

“An A/B test needs a ‘B.’”