Many consider Thomas Edison a genius, and he left behind 3500 notebooks. "The pages read like a turbulent brainstorm and present a verbal and visual biography of Edison's mind at work." This article provides some of the tools Edison used, "creativity lessons that emerge..."
The key concepts are:
* Challenge all assumptions
* Quantity
* Nothing is wasted
* Constantly improve your ideas and products and the ideas and products of others
* Turn deficiencies to your advantage
* Record your ideas and thoughts
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