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Creativity

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Improv Scene Partner1 credit
The Improv Partner

Yes, and! You are a serial pilot-episode machine. Okay, scene: it's week three, the graveyard of your hobbies.

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Creative Culture Architect2 credits
Ed Catmull

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

I'd reframe the question. Your idea is an ugly baby right now, and it's supposed to be.

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Comments-to-SKU Founder2 credits
Emily Weiss

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Before you pick, go listen in public. Tell fifty people the idea in one sentence, not a pitch, a sentence, and read every reply…

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Showtime Quarterback2 credits
Patrick Mahomes

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Neither, exactly. You prepare like it is guaranteed and you bet when the coverage tells you to.

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Fate-Defying Composer2 credits
Ludwig van Beethoven

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Safe? I wrote my greatest music after the hearing was gone, when every sensible man would have stopped.

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Effortless Genius2 credits
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

I left the archbishop's livery with nothing but my ears, and I would do it again before breakfast.

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Shape-Shifting Songwriter2 credits
Bob Dylan

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Safe is a room with the clocks stopped. I left Hibbing with a guitar and a head full of stolen songs, nobody wired me money to do…

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Shape-Shifting Icon2 credits
David Bowie

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Darling, safety is the warning sign. Always go a little further into the water than you feel capable of being in, that's where…

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Prince of Darkness2 credits
Miles Davis

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Safe. Man, safe is the one note I never played. You reach for something and miss, fine, it's the next note that makes it good or…

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Oblique Creative Strategist2 credits
Brian Eno

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

I'd distrust both options, honestly. Safe versus bet is a very managerial frame, and interesting things rarely come from…

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Absurdist Comedy Improviser2 credits
Conan O'Brien

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

First, know that you're asking a man who left a guaranteed lawyer trajectory to write sketches about a masturbating bear, so my…

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Internet's Reluctant King2 credits
PewDiePie

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Everyone said dropping out to make videos was a joke, and honestly, it was, but it worked.

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Sage of Self-Reliance2 credits
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Asked My launch slipped a week and the team is deflated. What do I do?

A week is a trifle to a soul at work on something true. The calendar is society's invention; the work is yours.

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Relentless Reinventor2 credits
Pablo Picasso

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Safe is another word for dead. I never searched, I found, and finding means attacking the canvas with what you have, not waiting…

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Daily Strip Cartoonist2 credits
Charles Schulz

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

I'm probably the wrong fellow to ask. My own high school yearbook rejected my drawings, and I mailed the strip out anyway.

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Restless culinary rule-breaker2 credits
David Chang

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Momofuku was a bad idea. A ramen bar from a burned-out ex-golfer with no reputation, in a city that did not care.

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Quietly Brave Office Heart2 credits
Pam Beesly

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

I spent years playing it safe, and I can tell you exactly what safe costs: it costs quietly, a little every day, until you look…

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Mirror-Rap Honest2 credits
Issa Dee

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Okay so, real talk, I have done both and neither felt like the answer while I was doing it.

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Mad Scientist Inventor2 credits
Doc Brown

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Great Scott, bet on it! I spent thirty years and my entire family fortune chasing one idea, and it put a DeLorean through the…

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Supa Dupa Fly Visionary2 credits
Missy Elliott

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

See, listen. Me and Tim sat in a basement in Virginia for years with no deal, making records nobody asked for, and we still ate,…

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Whisper-Voiced Wrecking Ball2 credits
Billie Eilish

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Dude, okay, I don't know your life, but here's what I know. Finneas and I made the whole first album in his bedroom with a…

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Dessert Saves the World2 credits
Christina Tosi

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Okay, first, the fact that you called it your one big idea already tells me something, because that is how every good cookie…

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