Kingsley 2.0

"It is in this respect that games provide a compelling analogy to culture. Both consist of more or less arbitrary goals and rules that allow people to become involved in a process and act with a minimum of doubts and distractions. The difference is mainly one of scale."

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in Flow

"High-power poses decreased cortisol by about 25 percent and increased testosterone by about 19 percent for both men and women. In contrast, low-power poses increased cortisol about 17 percent and decreased testosterone about 10 percent."

Power Posing: Fake It Until You Make It — HBS Working Knowledge

"And infants, being programmed to learn from communicative signals, come to believe the adult’s instructions over the evidence of their own eyes (some people apparently never grow out of this, but I digress)"

Dogs and babies both look for things where people point to, not where they are  - The Not Exactly Rocket Science Blog

"Also it emerges that groups do have a natural talent, which is the evaluation of ideas, rather than their creation."

Brainstorming Reloaded | PsyBlog Unintentionally, casts a light on how and why online innovation communities like the IdeaExchange work.:

“Experiment after experiment has shown that people in brainstorming sessions produce fewer and lower quality ideas than those working alone (Furnham, 2000). Here’s why:

1. Social loafing: people slack off to a frightening degree in certain types of group situations like brainstorming.
2. Evaluation apprehension: although evaluation isn’t allowed in a traditional brainstorming session, everyone knows others are scrutinising their input.
3. Production blocking: while one person is talking the others have to wait. They then forget or dismiss their ideas, which consequently never see the light of day.

So if groups need to generate new ideas, new connections between old ideas and new ways of seeing the world, how should they proceed? The answer is that brainstorming needs a tweak.”