
Where Good Ideas Come From
The Natural History of Innovation
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Steven Johnson
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One of our most innovative, popular thinkers takes on - in exhilarating style - one of our key questions: "Where do good ideas come from?"
With Where Good Ideas Come From, Steven Johnson pairs the insight of his best-selling Everything Bad Is Good for You and the dazzling erudition of The Ghost Map and The Invention of Air to address an urgent and universal question: What sparks the flash of brilliance? How does groundbreaking innovation happen?
Answering in his infectious, culturally omnivorous style, using his fluency in fields from neurobiology to popular culture, Johnson provides the complete, exciting, and encouraging story of how we generate the ideas that push our careers, our lives, our society, and our culture forward.
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There's no one-size-fits-all model for the important decisions that can alter the course of a life, an organization, or a civilization. But Farsighted explains how we can approach these choices more effectively and how we can appreciate the subtle intelligence of choices that shaped our broader social history.
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Powerful Book for Business and Personal Decisions
- De Robert Z en 09-30-18
De: Steven Johnson
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How We Got to Now
- Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
- De: Steven Johnson
- Narrado por: Steven Johnson
- Duración: 2 h y 57 m
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Innovation starts with a problem whose solution sets in motion all kinds of unexpected discoveries. That's why you can draw a line from pendulums to punching the clock at a factory, from ice blocks to summer movie blockbusters, from clean water to computer chips. In the lively storytelling style that has made him a popular, best-selling author Steven Johnson looks at how accidental genius, brilliant mistakes, and unintended consequences shape the way we live in the modern world.
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Thank you
- De Anonymous User en 07-16-19
De: Steven Johnson
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The Ghost Map
- De: Steven Johnson
- Narrado por: Alan Sklar
- Duración: 8 h y 38 m
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This is a thrilling historical account of the worst cholera outbreak in Victorian London and a brilliant exploration of how Dr. John Snow's solution revolutionized the way we think about disease, cities, science, and the modern world.
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It was okay until the end
- De Matthew Groom en 12-04-08
De: Steven Johnson
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Breakthrough
- How To Design Your Life
- De: Joe Thomsett
- Narrado por: Virtual Voice
- Duración: 3 h y 28 m
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You can live a fulfilling life. Maybe you're reading this because you're nervous you're not living your life in alignment with who you are, it's driving you a little bit mad, and you so desperately want to do something about it. You are not mad. I promise you. You are present. You have a vitality inside you and it's itching to express itself, if only you can get out of your way. And you're not alone -- most of us get mentally trapped, weighed down by childhood and societal programming. Getting out of your way means venturing into the unknown. But this isn't enough. Instead, you need a map, ...
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More from Less
- How We Learned to Create More Without Using More
- De: Andrew McAfee
- Narrado por: Andrew McAfee
- Duración: 7 h y 57 m
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A compelling argument - masterfully researched and brilliantly articulated - that despite increasing prosperity for most of Earth’s inhabitants and an explosion of goods overall, consumption of natural resources such as metals, water, and timber has begun to decline. Best-selling author and codirector of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy Andrew McAfee says there’s a new reason for optimism: We’re past the point of "peak stuff" - from here on out, it'll take fewer resources to make things and fewer dollars to lead a comfortable life.
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Imperfect sound quality.
- De Anonymous User en 10-13-19
De: Andrew McAfee
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Win Your Inner Battles
- Defeat the Enemy Within and Live with Purpose
- De: Darius Foroux
- Narrado por: Darius Foroux
- Duración: 2 h y 37 m
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Do you want to change your career? Start a business? Stop losing sleep over a deadline? End your relationship? Or maybe, just live a fulfilling life? Everyone has goals and ambitions in life. But we often don't pursue our inner desires because of one thing: fear and a lack of self-confidence. In Win Your Inner Battles, I will show you how to destroy fear and live your life with a sense of purpose.
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So so
- De Cristina Wheeler en 03-31-25
De: Darius Foroux
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The Medici Effect
- What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us About Innovation
- De: Frans Johansson
- Narrado por: Frans Johansson
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Why do so many world-changing insights come from people with little or no related experience? Charles Darwin was a geologist when he proposed the theory of evolution. And it was an astronomer who finally explained what happened to the dinosaurs. Frans Johansson's The Medici Effect shows how breakthrough ideas most often occur when we bring concepts from one field into a new, unfamiliar territory, and offers examples on how we can turn the ideas we discover into path-breaking innovations.
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This was a tough one.
- De Amazon Customer en 11-12-17
De: Frans Johansson
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Life Is Hard
- How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way
- De: Kieran Setiya
- Narrado por: Kieran Setiya
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There is no cure for the human condition: life is hard. But Kieran Setiya believes philosophy can help. He offers us a map for navigating rough terrain, from personal trauma to the injustice and absurdity of the world.
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Solid
- De Jason Blum en 10-24-22
De: Kieran Setiya
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The Infernal Machine
- A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective
- De: Steven Johnson
- Narrado por: Steven Johnson
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Steven Johnson’s engrossing account of the epic struggle between the anarchist movement and the emerging surveillance state stretches around the world and between two centuries—from Alfred Nobel’s invention of dynamite and the assassination of Czar Alexander II to New York City in the shadow of World War I.
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Really Emma Goldman bio
- De Richard G. en 09-09-24
De: Steven Johnson
Fascinating
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The problem is that people don’t know what they don’t know... and so they actually locked up Marconi in an insane asylum after he began talking about his idea for radio. In a more current sense, we ignore people who don’t have degrees when getting a higher degree REQUIRES conformity to the current view.
I think this book is excuse making for the proliferation of people who decide that they know what “thinking” is because they have a degree. It’s like the same old social patterns of religion declaring that it knows truth. He cites Kuhn, without really understanding what Kuhn is saying about social forces.
So if you know that going in, it’s a stimulating read—ironically by accident in just the way he touts in the book, which supports that part of the ideas which is really good. That’s the best part of this—how ideas are found by accident. I know why this happens so there is much more to the story and I wrote a critical review because this book was worth it.
I highly recommend this book even with the “everybody wins” or “everyone gets the creativity out of the blue because that feels good” assertion, Lol. MUCH better than most but not always for the reasons that the author intended. Much love.
Doesn’t really Understand but good
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On Serendipity and its role in innovation
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Stimulating view of the history of innovation and the major factors that help build a “tangled bank”.
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Listening to this book is a GOOD IDEA 👌
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Would you listen to Where Good Ideas Come From again? Why?
I might listen again but more importantly I take away ideas that change my habits and get me excited.Who was your favorite character and why?
John Locke - He really is but I haven't finished. The book is a review of aspects of creativity not a story. I listen in short bursts and it is a good thing since every two minutes, I hear another idea that keeps me occupied for a day.What about Eric Singer’s performance did you like?
I can't decide if I like his using different accents for historical figures or not. He is very good at it.Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
No, too rich, too powerfulAny additional comments?
Johnson's The Invention of Air is another gold mineAnother Steven Johnson feast
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Loses gas
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There are hundreds of innovations that only happened because one innovation came first. For example, there would be no Instagram with no internet. There would be no YouTube with no computer. That's the adjacent possible. You open one door, and suddenly, you opened four more possibilities.
Some other learnings from the book:
* Serendipity only happens for the ones who try;
* Errors guide you in the search of the truth. They're the inevitable path to innovation. Don't be afraid of failing;
* Take notes. All the time. You may not know that you're cultivating a slow hunch.
Innovation isn't just the Eureka moment
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Awesome
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I’ll see you at the coral reef!
A solid, deep, fairly advanced book
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