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突然ひらめくアイデアというのではなく、その前に長期間の思考・熟考・醸造・発酵のような期間があったのちに生まれる予感

“If you go back and look at the historical record, it turns out that a lot of important ideas have very long incubation periods. I call this the ‘slow hunch’ … A lot of great ideas linger on sometimes for decades in the back of people’s minds.”

“Change can be fast. The most important ideas that trigger change are often very slow in their development—what I call the ‘slow hunch’ … If you go back and look at all sorts of innovations throughout history, the lightbulb moment almost never really exists. It’s almost always this long process where somebody has a fragment of an idea and it sits in their head for a year, or two years, or ten years before it turns into something really useful.”

“I’m really interested in innovation and technology, and at the same time I spend a lot of my recent career talking about things like the slow hunch—ideas that need time to develop and incubate (sometimes for a decade). In a sense, those two things seem to be in conflict with each other because you have this pace of change that’s accelerating … but you also inevitably need that longer development to come up with truly important ideas … The secret to slow hunches is keeping them alive.”

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