How to Cultivate the Art of Serendipity - The New York Times - 0 views
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In the 1960s, Gay Talese, then a young reporter, declared that “New York is a city of things unnoticed” and delegated himself to be the one who noticed.
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Bo Adams on 03 Jan 16LOVE THIS! "delgated himself to be the one who noticed."
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Some scientists even embrace a kind of “free jazz” method, he said, improvising as they go along: “I’ve heard of people getting good results after accidentally dropping their experimental preparations on the floor, picking them up, and working on them nonetheless,” he added.
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an incredible 50 percent of patents resulted from what could be described as a serendipitous process.
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That’s why we need to develop a new, interdisciplinary field — call it serendipity studies — that can help us create a taxonomy of discoveries
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A number of pioneering scholars have already begun this work, but they seem to be doing so in their own silos and without much cross-talk.