Don't Start From Scratch: How Innovative Ideas Arise
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What makes innovative thinkers innovative?
Don't Start From Scratch: How Innovative Ideas Arise How Innovative Ideas Arise written by James Clear Decision Making Habits In 2010, Thomas Thwaites decided he wanted to build a toaster from scratch. He walked into a shop, purchased the cheapest toaster he could find, and promptly went home and broke it down piece by piece. Thwaites had assumed the toaster would be a relatively simple machine. By the time he was finished deconstructing it, however, there were more than 400 components laid out on his floor. The toaster contained over 100 different materials with three of the primary ones
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