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Why do so many world-changing insights come from people with little or no related experience? Charles Darwin was a geologist when he proposed the theory of evolution. And it was an astronomer who finally explained what happened to the dinosaurs. Frans Johansson’s The Medici Effect shows... read more
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“Research also indicates that people who are fluent in multiple languages tend to exhibit greater creativity than others”
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First Sentence
IN THE SPRING OF 2002, a team of researchers at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, conducted a remarkable experiment.
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- Frans Johansson (Author)
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