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Great like article about letting go of a problem in order to solve it

but sometimes, and strangely, it was when they went to lunch that some of the best progress was made.

The creative world is familiar with this paradox. For some reason, it is when we are free to stop thinking about the problem that we sometimes manage our best work on the problem.

And it is especially when we are free to think about something unrelated to our problem that our problem stops being a problem.

via Harnessing the Innovation Paradox :: CultureBy – Grant McCracken.

It’s strange how the brain works isn’t it. It makes it worth finding ways to improved it’s power. Try taking a quick look at this brain optimindation program and see what you think…

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Totally engaging video that explores and challenges what motivates us.

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Here’s an example (from an article from the New York Times) where function is overtaking form. A camera no longer needs to be a camera.

“It’s much easier to share those pictures with my friends,” she explained, through social networks or e-mail. “With my point-and-shoot, I have to plug it into my computer and upload the photos. It’s just a few more steps than I want to take.”The point-and-shoot camera, which has been a part of American households since 1900, when George Eastman introduced the Kodak Brownie, is endangered. Like other single-use devices — the answering machine, the desktop calculator, the Rolodex — it is being shoved aside by a multipurpose device: the smartphone and its camera, which takes better snapshots with each new model.

via In Smartphone Era, Point-and-Shoots Stay Home – NYTimes.com.

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