Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take
The Aha! Moment
David Jones · 2012
75/100
👍 Worth It
David Jones brings a scientist's rigor and a satirist's wit to the question of how creativity actually happens, and the result is genuinely entertaining popular science. The theoretical model is more heuristic than empirical, and the sheer density of historical anecdotes can blur together, but the ideas are stimulating and the prose keeps moving. A pleasurable, thought-provoking read for anyone curious about invention.
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substance72
craft78
originality75
accuracy70
hype72
age-fit82
human-eye75
Penny’s verdict75
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