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There is indeed a common trait in the typical way creative thinkers approach challenges: They can comfortably hold opposing thoughts in their heads and get to work.
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Successful creative thinkers see opposites and apparently contradicting goals not just as a potential for dissonance, but as an opportunity for dynamic harmony. To paraphrase one of Walt Whitman’s most famous verses “creative thinkers are vast, they contain multitudes.” And to paraphrase F. Scott Fitzgerald, the mark of a truly intelligent person is the ability to still function while holding two, opposing ideas in their head.
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The truth lies in harnessing the positive tension between the extremes, and fine-tuning it until it resonates with what current technologies can enable and with what intended consumers and end-users are ready to adopt in a given sociocultural economic context.
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It’s an art that only a group of talented individuals have proven to be capable of mastering.

I’m not for the notion of ‘artistic’ or ‘creative’ meaning making a pretty picture.
Every entrepreneur I have ever met is an artist. They are all forced to become comfortable with failure.
And for entrepreneurs, their canvas is their company.

When I’m in writing mode for a novel, I get up at 4:00 a.m. and work for five to six hours. In the afternoon, I run for ten kilometers or swim for fifteen hundred meters (or do both), then I read a bit, and listen to some music. I go to bed at 9:00 p.m.
I keep to this routine every day without variation. The repetition itself becomes the important thing; it’s a form of mesmerism. I mesmerize myself to reach a deeper state of mind.

But to hold to such repetition for so long—six months to a year—requires a good amount of mental and physical strength. In that sense, writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity.

We have been conditioned to believe that the only prosperous and respectable career choices reside in the left brain - while right-brainers have more influence on society than ever before […]

It is never too late for closet right-brainers to free themselves from the shackles of convention for the boundless exploits of the unfamiliar.

We cannot solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.