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...Studying notebooks, manuscripts and historical records, we've dissected the creative process of people like the Wright brothers, Charles Darwin, T.S. Eliot, Jackson Pollock, even business innovators like Citigroup's John Reed. We find that creativity happens not with one brilliant flash but in a chain reaction of many tiny sparks while executing an idea...
...theory of monads. These were tiny hypothetical life forms that sprang spontaneously from inanimate matter. If they died, they took with them all the species into which they had evolved. Darwin spent years refining this bizarre theory before ultimately rejecting it. But it was a critical link in the chain that led to his branching model of evolution. Sometimes you don't know which sparks are important until later, but the more ideas you have, the better...
...Alaskan sockeye salmon. All sockeye (red) salmon are wild?fish farmers haven't yet been able to domesticate them?and since those fish are less carnivorous than other types of salmon, they have lower levels of the environmental contaminants that accumulate as you work your way up the food chain. Canned sockeye, available in most supermarkets, is a perfectly good source of omega...
...When a 9-month-old raises his arms to be picked up by Daddy, that demonstrates an incredibly complex chain of learning," says Claire Lerner, director of parent education at Zero to Three, a national nonprofit focused on early-childhood development. "First the child has to have an emotional connection to his father. Then he has to form an idea: I want to be picked up. Then he has to know to raise his arms. In that tiny vignette, you can see how complicated a baby's development...
...need to create a clear command and control structure that runs from the federal government to the state-equivalent to the chain of command that's very clear on the DOD [Department of Defense] side...