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Introduction | |
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The Process of Invention | |
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The Paper Clip and the Problem | |
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What Makes a Great Idea Great? | |
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The History of the Paper Clip | |
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What's the Problem? | |
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Is It the Right Problem? | |
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Reframing the Problem | |
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The Evolving Invention | |
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Invention in Context | |
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The Hidden Obvious | |
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The Destination | |
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Being Confidently Naive | |
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The Vision and the Visionary | |
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Needfinding and Paradigms | |
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Seeing the Hidden Obvious | |
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The Vision Refined | |
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Creativity and the Brain | |
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The Creative Mind | |
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Feeding the Brain | |
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Listening to Your Subconscious | |
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Thinking with the Gut | |
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Your Inner Senses | |
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Working Ideas, Percolation, and Not Falling in Love | |
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Action versus Thought: The Importance of Doing | |
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The Process of Invention | |
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The Flash of Inspiration | |
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The Resonance of an Idea | |
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Sources of Innovation | |
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Applications of Life Experience | |
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Making the Familiar New | |
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Applying Physical Principles | |
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Accidental and Chance Observations | |
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Learning from Nature | |
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The Processes of Invention | |
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Design and Invention | |
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Simplicity | |
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Profound Simplicity | |
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The Simple and the Complex | |
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Zero Mass Design | |
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Elegance | |
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The Many Facets of Elegance | |
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Ingenious Simplicity: The Most from the Least | |
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Core Inventions: From Screws to Microprocessors | |
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Adaptive Inventions: The Elegance of Self-Regulation | |
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Smart Inventions: Inventions That Change with Change | |
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Characteristics of Elegance-A Summary | |
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Robustness | |
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Strength | |
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Redundancy | |
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Simplicity | |
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Self-Healing | |
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Managed Failure | |
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Making it Happen | |
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Problem Solving and Iteration | |
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A Systems Approach: Connect the Big Pieces First | |
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KISS: Keep It Simple, Stupid | |
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Testing, Testing, 1, 2, 3 | |
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What You Couldn't See from There, You Can See from Here | |
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Attacking from the Bottom | |
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Inventing while You Sleep | |
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Arbitrate and Iterate | |
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Limiting the Scope | |
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Stopping | |
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Putting It All Together | |
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Anticipating the Unanticipated | |
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Documentation | |
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Summary | |
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The Business of Invention | |
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Inventing as an Employee | |
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Selling Your Inventions | |
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Entrepreneurship: Starting Your Own Company | |
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Patents | |
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The Business of Invention | |
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The Art of Invention | |
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The Unexplored: Hard Work, Fear, and Fantasy | |
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Experience and Invention | |
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The Art of Getting It Wrong | |
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The Hidden Obvious Revisited | |
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Serendipity | |
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The Staircase of Creativity | |
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The Pleasure of the Problem | |
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The Inventor's Tool Kit | |
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Making It Real | |
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The Art and the Science | |
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The Future Is Yours to Create | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Notes | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |