In A Simple Guide to Finding Good Ideas I wrote that to find good ideas you should produce a lot of ideas. You can get quality out of quantity.
I recently realized that similar principle also applies to finding success in life. While to find good ideas you should produce a lot of ideas, to find [...]

I recently watched the movie Red Cliff II. It’s about a famous battle in the Three Kingdoms era in China. The battle was between Cao Cao who had about 800,000 soldiers and Liu Bei – Sun Quan alliance who had less than 100,000 soldiers.
Despite being greatly outnumbered, Liu Bei and Sun Quan eventually won the [...]

Do you want to have good, high-quality ideas? In this age of knowledge, having good ideas can separate you from others and put you ahead of the pack.
But how can we get high-quality ideas? As it turns out, a great way to get high-quality ideas is to have a lot of ideas. The Medici Effect [...]

Since I’m in the business of creating ideas (mainly for this blog), I’m always interested in books about idea creation. Recently I found a book on this topic entitled The Medici Effect: What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us About Innovation by Frans Johansson.
Medici Effect is the name given by the author for [...]

Do you want to get the most out of your time? I’m sure you do. But for it you must do two things: you must focus on a project while exploring new opportunities.
I learned something from the way Google’s developers work. At Google, the developers have the so-called “20 percent time” policy.  [...]

Is there are a better way to learn about high-quality mind other than from the great minds themselves? Perhaps not. That’s why I watched a video from Google Tech Talks entitled On Getting Creative Ideas. It’s a lecture that features Murray Gell-Man who won Nobel Prize in physics in 1969 for proposing [...]