Creative ideas are not confined to an exclusive group of talented people. We are all born with innate creative ability; you have only to observe a three-year-old at play to know that.

In many ways, creativity is a muscle with which we’re born. As with any muscle with which we’re born, it can be exercised, built, and made stronger.

Like exercising with a good training partner, the combination of competition and cooperative effort inherent in group brainstorming can inspire us to push our thinking harder and farther.

“Travelling makes a person young because he doesn't get time to get old.”

Fast and Slow do more than just describe a rate of change. 

Fast is busy, controlling, aggressive, hurried, analytical, stressed, superficial, impatient and jumpy.

Slow is the opposite: calm, careful, receptive, still, intuitive, unhurried, patient, reflective, quality-over-quantity. It is about making real and meaningful connections—with people, culture, work, food, everything.

The paradox is that Slow does not always mean slow. As we shall see, performing a task in a Slow manner often yields faster results. It is also possible to do things quickly while maintaining a Slow frame of mind.