It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.

If you make an error, use it as a stepping stone to a new idea you might not have otherwise discovered.

Open your mind up to things that have no connection with the problem you're trying to solve: subscribe to an unusual magazine; spend a morning at an elementary school; go to work two hours early; test drive an exotic car; attend a city council meeting; ...try an Indonesian recipe.

Most burning issues generate far more heat than light.

If you don't execute your ideas, they die.