People are biased against creative ideas, studies find
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People are biased against creative ideas, studies find
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Re: People are biased against creative ideas, studies find
#2Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. -- Howard Aiken
Re: People are biased against creative ideas, studies find
#3Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. -- Howard Aiken
"There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all those who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order, this lukewarmness arising partly from fear of their adversaries … and partly from the incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it."
– Niccolo Machiavelli
Re: People are biased against creative ideas, studies find
#4I was called a trouble maker once...Now I see why.
Re: People are biased against creative ideas, studies find
#5It's not that surprising it it? Most new ideas are unproductive (not to suggest that having them is!). Makes sense that we'd develop a resistance to them as a defense mechanism.
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#6I think it also matters where the idea comes from: boss, peer, intern, consultant, etc.
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#7Being biased against "creative ideas" is a good heuristic to avoid many genuinely stupid and dangerous plans from fruit-loops
Re: People are biased against creative ideas, studies find
#8In case you're interested in reading the actual study here's a link to the PDF. Why the article didn't link to it directly is a mystery to me.
http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?ar...
Re: People are biased against creative ideas, studies find
#9It's not that surprising it it? Most new ideas are unproductive (not to suggest that having them is!). Makes sense that we'd develop a resistance to them as a defense mechanism.
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Re: People are biased against creative ideas, studies find
#10In case you're interested in reading the actual study here's a link to the PDF. Why the article didn't link to it directly is a mystery to me. http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?ar...
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