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Sleeping Beauties: Why Good Ideas Go Dormant and How They Wake Up
By David Byrne
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The legendary Talking Heads frontman explores why brilliant ideas can gather dust for years, what brings them to the surface and how they can eventually gain the momentum to flourish.
"Byrne guides us on a captivating quest to understand how we come to remember forgotten ideas, inventions and technologies . . . Sleeping Beauties belongs on the bookshelf of anyone who cares about creativity or culture." —Adam Grant, The New York Times Book Review
From incomparable creative force David Byrne, a brilliant and inspiring reckoning with how breakthroughs across the arts and sciences get forgotten, and how they get rediscovered
It’s nice to believe in a meritocracy of ideas—geniu...
From incomparable creative force David Byrne, a brilliant and inspiring reckoning with how breakthroughs across the arts and sciences get forgotten, and how they get rediscovered
It’s nice to believe in a meritocracy of ideas—geniu...
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