What Makes a Book, Song or Movie Popular? A Conversation with Noah Askin
New Books in Literary Studies
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Singing a Church Choir
The story of the post it note was created at 3m. The guy who ultimately is credited with creating an Arthur Fry, sang in like a church choir. He had basically torn pieces of paper that went in the book and everybody by the end of every Sunday practice, the paper would be all over the floor. And he happened to see this and say, wait, this adhesive that actually isn't great might make sense in this context because he was used to pieces of paper falling out of his. So if you want to be a great inventor, singing a church choir doesn't help. No, that's identify the problems that you face in your everyday life and look into the other realms for
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