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Those who don’t believe in magic…

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This Thursday I will give a guest lecture at the School of Applied Sciences in Rotterdam. I’m really looking forward to it and still fine tuning the presentation this evening. The presentation itself covers what I think are the fundamentals of creative thinking, and the Great Ideas that are a natural result of that.

More on that later though, I don’t want to give away too much before the presentation itself. What I can tell you the presentation (and the next blogpost) is largely inspired by my favorite quote of all time, by one of the greatest storytellers and Creative Thinkers that will ever walked the face of this earth:

“Above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” ~ Roald Dahl

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What other people thought about this:

  1. Great quote and good luck thursday! Won’t be able to be there but certainly interested to see it later ;-)

    Posted by Stephan on March 17th, 2009, 11:08 PM
  2. Thanks Stephan!

    Presentation went well, sorry you had to miss it, but there will be a chance to catch up soon. In the 4th quarter of Design This! I’ll probably be doing a workshop with a closely related theme to last presentation.

    Posted by Rick van der Wal on April 2nd, 2009, 12:41 PM

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