The Breakthrough Paradigm

Clive Thompson Articel on breakthrough and how to regognizre them.

If you want to spot the next thing, Buxton argues, you just need to go “prospecting and mining”—looking for concepts that are already successful in one field so you can bring them to another. Buxton particularly recommends prospecting the musical world,

Look at a field (democracy movements) look to see where they have gotten inspiration in the past (music? other democracy movements or even failed democracy activists now doing other things?) and use this to predict where the influential field actually is.  Look for innovations there.

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