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In 2016, I saw how voters were leaning towards Trump and how so many Americans felt misunderstood by Washington.

So I started the Big Take D.C.

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Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast. Today's

tip is about how to get new ideas. Everyone likes to talk about innovation as this big fancy concept, but if you think about it,

innovation just means coming up with new ideas, preferably lots of new ideas, because creativity turns out to be a numbers game.

Some stuff will work and some stuff won't.

So we've got to throw a lot of stuff at the wall to see what sticks.

But very few people build much thinking time into their lives.

Instead, most of us spend our days responding to emails,

tromping to status meetings, and leaving precious little time open.

Then we wonder why our brains feel so fried.

Unfortunately, the cycle of reactivity is incredibly counterproductive.

By responding to everything immediately, we don't carve out the space to come up with the ideas

that make people want to email us in the first place. Some people might be able to

go off into a cabin in the into turning mode quickly. In my time management fable, Juliet's School of Possibilities,

Riley, the heroine, comes up with her career saving idea

while she has biking on the boardwalk.

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