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The High Art of Designing Scaffolding

Mills-Scofield

Often, the most difficult part of any creative process is just getting started; preparing for the tasks at hand by putting the necessary structures in place that will bring the project to fruition. We tend to gravitate towards institutions with which we have an affinity, and whose culture and values we are sympathetic to.

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THINKING STRATEGIES GENIUSES USE “HOW TO THINK” INSTEAD OF “WHAT TO THINK”

Michael Michalko

Following are thumbnail descriptions of strategies that are common to the thinking styles of creative geniuses in science, art and industry throughout history. Alexander Graham Bell observed the comparison between the inner workings of the ear and the movement of a stout piece of membrane to move steel and conceived the telephone.