Author Steven Johnson says that ideas don’t come in a stroke of genius â they emerge from a network of people, places and real-world constraints.
http://www.npr.org/2012/06/08/154457665/is-the-eureka-moment-a-myth
TED Radio Hour: Steven Johnson: Is the “Eureka” Moment a Myth? : NPR
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How did Darwin develop some of his ideas? Why did YouTube burst onto the social media scene when it did? And how are those two developments connected?
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How Cafe Culture Helped Make Good Ideas Happen : NPR
It is easy to talk about great ideas as if they were light-bulb moments — sudden epiphanies where everything comes together for you. But Steven Johnson, author of Where Good Ideas Come From, says the great ideas of the past have taken a lot more hanging out than you’d expect.
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