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Creativity and innovation may even be the key to the future economic prosperity of America and other developed countries…
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Creativity and innovation have always been important; what’s new is that they’re becoming economically more valuable by the day.
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The greatest innovators in a wide range of fields… all have at least one characteristic in common: They spent many years in intensive preparation before making any kind of creative breakthrough.
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Great innovations are roses that bloom after long and careful cultivation.
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The most eminent creators are consistently those who have immersed themselves utterly in their chosen field, have devoted their lives to it, amassed tremendous knowledge of it, and continually pushed themselves to the front of it.
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…in many creative fields the person who pursues an advanced degree has consciously chosen a path to a professorship, not to a life of innovating in that domain.
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…it makes perfect sense that… those with the most years of formal schooling would be less eminent as innovators.
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…innovators aren’t burdened by knowledge; they’re nourished by it.
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…notable innovations in business… do not arise from nothingness; they are not even remotely unprecedented.
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Innovation doesn’t reject the past; on the contrary, it relies heavily on the past and comes most readily to those who’ve mastered the domain as it exists.
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