Experiment is the expected failure to deliberately learn something. — Scott Berkun Education Copy Share Image
It's rare for people to genuinely try to understand what others are trying to say. — Scott Berkun Educational Copy Share Image
The bottleneck is never code or creativity; it's lack of clarity. — Scott Berkun Bottleneck Copy Share Image
Big thoughts are fun to romanticize, but it's many small insights coming together that bring big ideas into the world. — Scott Berkun Big idea Copy Share Image
Anyone can criticize or accept praise, but initiating a positive exchange is a hallmark of a difference maker. — Scott Berkun Copy Share Image
“Making great things requires both intuition and logic, not a dominance of one over the other.” — Scott Berkun Intuition Copy Share Image
It’s not the fear of writing that blocks people, it’s fear of not writing well; something quite different. — Scott Berkun Copy Share Image
Part of the challenge of innovation is coming up with the problem to solve, not just its solution. — Scott Berkun Challenge Copy Share Image
I don’t want to be perfect. I want to be useful, I want to be good, and I want to sound like… — Scott Berkun Copy Share Image
If you'd like to be good at something, the first thing to out the window is the notion of perfection. — Scott Berkun Copy Share Image
Most people doubt online meetings can work but they somehow overlook that most in-person meetings don't work either. — Scott Berkun Doubt Copy Share Image
“Human beings, who are almost unique [among animals] in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable… — Scott Berkun Copy Share Image
“History can’t give attention to what’s been lost, hidden, or deliberately buried; it is mostly a telling of success, not the partial… — Scott Berkun Failure Copy Share Image
“Writers aren’t the most well-adjusted people, and it’s telling that our preferred means of interaction with civilization is throwing paragraph-shaped grenades at… — Scott Berkun Grenades Copy Share Image
No one has died from giving a bad presentation. Well, at least one person did, President William Henry Harrison, but he developed… — Scott Berkun Copy Share Image
Innovative ideas are rarely rejected on their merits; they’re rejected because of how they make people feel. If you forget people’s concerns… — Scott Berkun Copy Share Image
“An amazing thing about our digital age is that the person next to you at Starbucks might just be hacking into a… — Scott Berkun Digital age Copy Share Image
Staying curious and open is what makes growth possible, and it requires practice to maintain that mindset. To keep learning, we have… — Scott Berkun Copy Share Image
“Defensive management is blind to recognizing how obsessing about preventing bad things also prevents good things from happening or sometimes even prevents… — Scott Berkun Copy Share Image
The temptation many creative people I know have is to strive for popularity. To make, do, and say things that other people… — Scott Berkun Creative Copy Share Image
“Perhaps this is why The Boeing Company, one of the largest airplane design and engineering firms in the world, keeps a black… — Scott Berkun Black books Copy Share Image
For centuries before Google, MIT, and IDEO, modern hotbeds of innovation, we struggled to explain any kind of creation, from the universe… — Scott Berkun Copy Share Image
“One way to think about epiphany is to imagine working on a jigsaw puzzle. When you put the last piece into place,… — Scott Berkun Epiphany Copy Share Image
“The problem with smart people is that they like to be right and sometimes will defend ideas to the death rather than… — Scott Berkun Bad idea Copy Share Image
“Einstein said, “ Imagination is more important than knowledge,” but you’d be hard-pressed to find schools or corporations that invest in people… — Scott Berkun Creativity Copy Share Image
“The best lesson from the myths of Newton and Archimedes is to work passionately but to take breaks. Sitting under trees and… — Scott Berkun Business Copy Share Image
It's only through effort that we learn what an idea actually is, and if our passion for it will last or fade.… — Scott Berkun Effort Copy Share Image
“I believe anyone can teach anyone anything. But I mean this in a specific sense. If you have two dedicated, reasonably intelligent… — Scott Berkun Education Copy Share Image
“The Greeks were so committed to ideas as supernatural forces that they created an entire group of goddesses (not one but nine)… — Scott Berkun Goddesses Copy Share Image
“It's often people whose jobs are abstractions that see a company as a zero-sum game where they have to fight and defend… — Scott Berkun Abstractions Copy Share Image
“Nearly every major innovation of the 20th century took place without claims of epiphany.” — Scott Berkun Copy Share Image
My intent is simply to know my material so well that I'm very comfortable with it. Confidence, not perfection, is the goal. — Scott Berkun Copy Share Image
It's safe to assume that no matter where you stand, someone would be happy to be in your shoes, just as you'd… — Scott Berkun Copy Share Image
This is one big problem with working remotely: no one believes you have a job at all. — Scott Berkun Copy Share Image
“The love of new ideas is a myth: we prefer ideas only after others have tested them.” — Scott Berkun Love Copy Share Image
Most people doubt online meeting scan work, but they somehow overlook that most in person meetings don't work either. — Scott Berkun Doubt Copy Share Image
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