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The one who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone, is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.

Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein

A German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics.

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Awareness of your own limits will allow you to be as effective as possible within them.

Erika Hall
Erika Hall

Design consultant & co-founder of the famous Mule Design Studio. Erika is also known as an insightful speaker & writer on the topics of UX research & design.

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  • Critical Thinking
  • Design Thinking
  • Self-Improvment
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Sometimes a tree can tell you more than can be read in a book.

Carl Jung
Carl Jung

A Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. Jung's work has been influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, philosophy, psychology, and religious studies.

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Creativity cannot be understood by looking only at the people who appear to make it happen.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

A Hungarian-American psychologist. He recognized and named the psychological concept of "flow", a highly focused mental state conducive to productivity.

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  • Collective Thinking
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  • Oversimplification
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If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

John Cage
John Cage

An American composer and music theorist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music and one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde.

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Use of brainteasers in the hiring process provides little information about the suitability of the job applicant but considerable information about the callousness of the interviewer.

Scott Highhouse
Scott Highhouse

A Professor and Ohio Eminent Scholar in the Department of Psychology, Bowling Green State University, USA.

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When we are at these early stages in design . . . often we’ll talk about the story for the product—we’re talking about perception. We’re talking about how you feel about the product, not in a physical sense, but in a perceptual sense.

Jony Ive
Jony Ive

Former Chief Design Officer of Apple, currently serving as a Chancellor of the Royal College of Art.

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  • Famous Products
  • Industrial Design
  • Perception
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Hire people for what they can teach you, not for what you can teach them.

Rob Giampietro
Rob Giampietro

A designer and writer. His recent work has touched on a range of topics, including the relationship of movement and interaction, visual identity and branding in the arts.

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Familiarity breeds assumptions and blind spots. Nothing slows down design and development projects as much as arguing over personal opinions.

Erika Hall
Erika Hall

Design consultant & co-founder of the famous Mule Design Studio. Erika is also known as an insightful speaker & writer on the topics of UX research & design.

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Stories can act as vessels, carriers that help transmit information to others. In other words, stories carry things, a lesson or moral, information or a take-home message. No wonder that people tell stories for the same reasons they share word of mouth. Some narratives are about social currency, some are driven by emotions or retold for their practical value.

Jonah Berger
Jonah Berger

A professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. An expert on word of mouth, viral marketing, social influence, and how products, ideas, and behaviors catch on.

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  • Storytelling
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