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The Daily Show’s Secret to Creativity

WorkLife with Adam Grant

CHAPTER

The Writer's Room

The Daily Show writer's room is a massive machine. On any given day, over a hundred staff and crew members are working on it. They've cracked the code of group creativity, and i'm going in to find out how. The writers have only about two hours to write first drafts before their show wraps up. So they create ideal conditions for burstiness - an organizational psychologist's dream. And we get back stage access to see how they start the day with a blank page...

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