Peter Sims on how breakthrough ideas emerge from small discoveries

Couple of days ago I started reading an outstanding book: Little Bets (Amazon affiliate link) by Peter Sims and I am loving it!

The book describes how highly productive and creative thinkers and doers, such as Ludwig van Beethoven, the story developers at Pixar or Jeff Bezos, have achieved remarkable results by discovering and developing breakthrough ideas.

The book is so brilliant that I started to look for more resources and information on Peter’s work and I found this excellent presentation he gave recently at Google while promoting his new book.

This is an excellent introduction into the remarkable insights in the book, so I highly recommend you to watch it and then to go and get this outstanding book.

Enjoy!

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