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Cities Force Us To Interact With Strangers And With The Strange. They Pry The Mind Open. And That Is Why They Are The Idea That Has Unleashed So Many Of Our New Ideas.

The Only Way To Maximize Group Creativity—to Make The Whole More Than The Sum Of Its Parts—is To Encourage A Candid Discussion Of Mistakes. In Part, This Is Because The Acceptance Of Error Reduces Cost. When You Believe Your Flaws Will Be Quickly Corrected By The Group, You're Less Worried About Perfecting Your Contribution, Which Leads To A More Candid Conversation. We Can Only Get It Right When We Talk About What We Got Wrong.

Creativity Is A Spark. It Can Be Excruciating When We're Rubbing Two Rocks Together And Getting Nothing. And It Can Be Intensely Satisfying When The Flame Catches And A New Idea Sweeps Around The World.

We Travel Because We Need To, Because Distance And Difference Are The Secret Tonic Of Creativity. When We Get Home, Home Is Still The Same. But Something In Our Mind Has Been Changed, And That Changes Everything. Several New Science Papers Suggest That Getting Away Is An Essential Habit Of Effective Thinking. When We Escape From The Place We Spend Most Of Our Time, The Mind Is Suddenly Made Aware Of All Those Errant Ideas We'd Previously Suppressed. We Start Thinking About Obscure Possibilitiebsthat Never Would Have Occurred To Us If We'd Stayed Home.

The Imagination Is Unleashed By Constraints. You Break Out Of The Box By Stepping Into Shackles.