Jonah Lehrer: Creative Insights

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Channel: PopTech · 2010 · Science & Technology

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Author Jonah Lehrer explores the power of outsider intelligence. At PopTech 2009, the best-selling author of How We Decide and Proust Was a Neuroscientist, notes that, paradoxically, lacking expertise on a subject can be an asset. Its what allows us to see the connections, to see the problems that no one else can see.

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