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“I lower my standards”: William Stafford and How Progress Trumps Perfectionism

By Rob Fletcher | Published: August 3, 2011
The poet William Stafford wrote a poem daily – every morning, starting at either 4 or 4:30 AM depending on which account you read. When asked what happened if the poem wasn’t amazing, he replied, “I lower my standards.” Lowering standards – I can see a sea of executives and testing afficionados react in horror. [...]
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“What is it about a great teacher?” – Bill Gates asks the right question

By Rob Fletcher | Published: July 26, 2011
Bill Gates runs the U.S.’s richest foundation. His focus is education and so far he’s spent $5 billion on it. The result so far? Not so great. So, he’s shifting his focus into one of his strengths – research. Here is part of a recent Wall Street Journal interview: “I believe in innovation and that the way [...]
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Pat Metheny, the Orchestrion and Innovating Using Limits

By Rob Fletcher | Published: August 18, 2010
As the instruments started to trickle in from the various inventors, the experience of writing for them and figuring out what might be possible with them provided a self-imposed challenge that proved to be difficult and time-consuming, but absolutely exhilarating. -Pat Metheny I recently wrote a post about innovating by limiting yourself. Here’s another great [...]
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Want to innovate? Limit Yourself

By Rob Fletcher | Published: July 29, 2010
For this third album, Peter Gabriel made a strange request of the drummers on the sessions – no cymbals. No high hat, no ride cymbal, no crash cymbals. This must have been hard for the drummers – when I see a great drummer at work it’s as if all parts of the drum kit, especially [...]
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