The Survivor Bias

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It was a perfect storm of Damon and this idea and the two of us as new friends and colleagues suddenly working together. I feel like those kind of constraints can be incredibly exciting and they can also be awful. Many start up stumble on, so it bears repeating. Just because you pulled off a feat with an insane degree of difficulty doesn't mean you need to recreate those same conditions to succeed. Creativity, cooperation, a sense of ownership, shared goals are things you can cultivate without the ticking clock. But how?

You can’t predict your next a-ha moment. but you can create favorable circumstances for serendipity to happen – for you, and for your team. No one knows this better than J.J. Abrams, director, producer, screenwriter, and co-founder and co-CEO of Bad Robot Productions, which has been behind some of the most successful TV series and films of the last 20 years, from Lost to Star Trek to the Star Wars sequel trilogy. J.J. explains how creativity and collaboration are things you cultivate, not conjure; and that making room for magic isn’t a luxury, it’s an essential part of entrepreneurship. Building the conditions for discovery emboldens and energizes a team, he shows, helping to accelerate the arrival of the next surprise-and-delight solution.

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