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Hundreds of small terracotta pots heaped together, each ringed with pressed patterns and pierced with small holes.Clay pots at Kumbharwada, the potters' quarter of Dharavi in Mumbai.Photo: SriChinnu, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped by One Young India. The crop is shared under the same licence.

Part 1: Where ideas come from, and how to widen the net

A stone stepwell seen from its top step: terraces of carved, pillared galleries step down between grassy banks.Rani-⁠ki-⁠Vav at Patan, Gujarat: a well and a flight of steps, built as an upside-down temple.Photo: "Rani ki vav" by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped by One Young India. The crop is shared under the same licence.
A thick tangle of living tree roots arching over a clear, rocky stream to form a footbridge in a forest.A living root bridge in Meghalaya: a footbridge grown from a living tree's roots.Photo: Joydeep Chakraborty, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped by One Young India. The crop is shared under the same licence.
An old engraved section and plan of a stepwell: flights of steps descend under pillared pavilions to a round well.Plan and section of the Madhava Vav, a stepwell at Wadhwan in Gujarat: flights of steps run down through pavilions, level by level, to the well.Drawing: Henry Cousens (1854-1933), public domain (Indian work whose copyright term has ended), via Wikimedia Commons.
A large wooden screw press in a whitewashed room: a thick upright screw, a long beam and a stone basin below.A wooden screw press for grapes, in a museum in Sicily.Photo: Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped by One Young India. The crop is shared under the same licence.
A row of small cast metal letters, reversed, locked in a metal composing stick on a dark cloth.Cast metal type for Thai script, set in a composing stick: one small block for each letter.Photo: Paul_012, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
A dark wooden hand press in a museum: a big screw and bar above a flat bed holding a block of metal type.Gutenberg's press as the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz shows it: turn the bar, and the screw presses paper down onto inked metal type.Photo: "Gutenberg's printing press in the Gutenberg Museum, Mainz, Germany" by dronepicr, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped by One Young India.
A page of fast, slanting handwriting in ink, with words squeezed in above the line and some crossed out.A page of one of Darwin's notebooks of 1837, printed in facsimile: fast handwriting, words squeezed in above the line, a word struck out.Scan: Charles Darwin (1809-1882), public domain (author died more than 70 years ago), via Wikimedia Commons.
A bare dirt track worn diagonally across a lawn, cutting the corner where a paved path turns away.A desire path in Belém, Lisbon: a track worn by walkers who cut the corner instead of following the paved path.Photo: "Desire path" by Metro Centric, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
A round, unglazed clay pot with a short neck on a low stand in a museum case, beside its printed label.A ghatam: a clay pot made in Chennai in 2009 to be played as a drum, now in the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix, Arizona.Photo: "Clay Drum MIM Museum Phoenix AZ" by bobistraveling, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped by One Young India.
Two diamond shapes side by side, labelled Discover, Define, Develop and Deliver, opening and closing in turn.The Design Council's Double Diamond: two rounds of opening out and closing in, from discovering the problem to delivering a solution.Diagram: Design Council, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
A sooty black moth with its wings spread flat, resting on a pale, grey and orange speckled surface.The dark form of the peppered moth on a pale surface.Photo: "Peppered Moth (Biston betularia) f.carbonaria" by Ben Sale from UK, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
A common kingfisher perched on a bare branch in profile, its long, straight, pointed beak held level.A common kingfisher: a long, narrow beak that tapers to a point.Photo: Alexis Lours, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped by One Young India.
The side of a silver bullet train at a station platform, its long nose tapering to a narrow, rounded point.The nose of a 500 Series Shinkansen, which Eiji Nakatsu shaped like that beak.Photo: Santetsu, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped by One Young India.
Two spiky golden burdock burrs and a scatter of small seeds on a black background, the hooked spines sharp and clear.Dried burdock burrs and seeds.Photo: "Arctium tomentosum" by Roger Culos, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi smiling, with white hair and a white beard, in a blue shirt and a grey jacket.Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, one of the two researchers who watched the art students.Photo: Ehirsh, public domain (released by its author), via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped by One Young India.
A painted still life: apples on a footed dish and on a plate, a crumpled white cloth, on a brown table.Paul Cézanne, Still Life with Apples in a Bowl, 1879 to 1882.Painting: Paul Cézanne, public domain (author died more than 70 years ago), via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped by One Young India.

Part 2: Creative constraints, craft and form

The hub of a carved stone wheel: a round medallion with a seated figure, ringed by carved petals and spokes.The hub of one of the carved stone wheels of the 13th century Sun Temple at Konark, Odisha.Photo: Subhrajyoti07, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
A bamboo house with a deep thatched roof raised on stilts, with a ladder up to its door, among trees and grass.A traditional Mising house on Majuli, a river island in Assam, built of bamboo and thatch and raised on stilts.Photo: Rumi Borah, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped by One Young India. The crop is shared under the same licence.
A printed page of fourteen lines of verse in old spelling, beginning Let me not to the marriage of true mindes.Sonnet 116 as it was printed in 1609.Scan: William Shakespeare, public domain (author died in 1616), via Wikimedia Commons.
A tall hanging scroll: a black crow perched on a bare, crooked branch, with a few lines of Japanese calligraphy beside it.A haiku by Matsuo Basho in his own hand, beside a crow on a bare branch painted by Morikawa Kyoriku.Painting: Morikawa Kyoriku & Matsuo Basho, public domain (authors died in 1694 and 1715), via Wikimedia Commons.
Two long orange palm leaves covered edge to edge in small incised Tamil letters, each pierced with two holes, on black.Two leaves of a Tamil palm-leaf manuscript, an 18th century copy of the Tevaram hymns, with holes for the cord that binds the leaves.Photo: Ms Sarah Welch, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
VideoApollo 13: ‘Houston, We’ve Had a Problem’From the channel NASA. Watch the full video.
A gold-wrapped spacecraft hangs over a deep round test chamber while workers in white cleanroom suits stand on platforms around it.The Mars Orbiter Mission spacecraft being lowered into ISRO's large space simulation chamber for a thermal vacuum test before launch.Photo: Indian Space Research Organisation (GODL-India), GODL-India, via Wikimedia Commons.
Inside a cramped spacecraft cabin: a boxy filter canister taped into place among hoses, switches and round windows.Inside Apollo 13's lunar module: the mailbox, the rig that let the command module's square lithium hydroxide canisters work in the lunar module.Photo: NASA Astronaut (either James A. Lovell, John L. Swigert, or Fred W. Haise), public domain (US government work, NASA), via Wikimedia Commons.
A pattern drawn square by square on grid paper: green leafy scrolls on red, with an empty patch of grid above.A design for wool work drawn on squared paper around 1866.Drawing: Unknown artist, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, public domain (published about 1866), via Wikimedia Commons.
VideoIt's not you. Bad doors are everywhere.From the channel Vox. Watch the full video.
Black and white portrait of an older man with a bald head, wearing a tweed jacket and tie, looking at the camera.C. Northcote Parkinson in 1961.Photo: "Cyril Northcote Parkinson (1961)" by Wim van Rossem for Anefo, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped by One Young India. The crop is shared under the same licence.
Four long-necked tanpuras with round wooden bodies standing upright side by side in a glass museum case.Tanpuras at the Raja Dinkar Kelkar Museum in Pune.Photo: Alexkom000, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The opening of a printed United States law, Public Law 111-274, with its long title and a section on its purpose.The opening of the Plain Writing Act of 2010, which tells US federal agencies to write so that the public can understand and use what they write.Scan: United States Congress, public domain (US government work), via GovInfo. Cropped by One Young India.
A signpost crowded with white arrow signs pointing in different directions, with place names in Irish and English.One post, many signs: a crowded signpost on the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry, Ireland.Photo: Mucklagh, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Part 3: Mindfulness, focus and the quiet mind

A tall historic reading room: arched windows and hanging lamps above tiers of wooden bookshelves behind a glass rail.The reading room of the State Central Library in Cubbon Park, Bengaluru.Photo: RayeeMetha, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped by One Young India.
Colour words such as Green, Red and Blue printed in ink of a different colour, then ordinary words in colour.A Stroop card: colour words printed in ink of another colour.Diagram: Belbury, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
VideoWhat multitasking does to your brain | BBC IdeasFrom the channel BBC Ideas. Watch the full video.
A page of printed Swedish text overlaid with pink circles on the words and lines showing where a reader's eyes jumped.Where one reader's eyes stopped on a page, recorded by an eye tracker at Lund University in 2005: each circle is a pause, each line a jump.Image: Lucs-kho at English Wikipedia, public domain (released into the public domain by its author), via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped by One Young India.
A handwritten manuscript page in Sanskrit, black Devanagari script between red ruled borders on yellowed paper.A page from a handwritten Sanskrit copy of the Yoga Sutras, with a commentary.Photo: Ms Sarah Welch, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
VideoHow to enter flow stateFrom the channel TED-Ed. Watch the full video.
Two hands shape a tall cone of wet clay on a spinning potter's wheel, blurred by its motion.A potter's hands on the wheel at the Odisha Crafts Museum: a clear goal, and feedback with every turn.Photo: Kritzolina, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
VideoThe benefits of daydreaming - Elizabeth CoxFrom the channel TED-Ed. Watch the full video.
A paved path beside a narrow canal, lined with cherry trees in pale pink blossom and low green hedges.The Philosopher's Walk in Kyoto: a path of about 2 km beside a canal.Photo: "The Philosophers Walk is about 2km long and runs along a canal" by shankar s., CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped by One Young India.
VideoHow to Form a HabitFrom the channel SciShow Psych. Watch the full video.
A room with a carved reclining chair, a small round table, armchairs and a glass-fronted cabinet, its tall windows open to light.Rabindranath Tagore's study room, on the first floor of Bichitra Bhavan at Jorasanko Thakur Bari in Kolkata.Photo: "Study Room of Rabindranath Tagore" by Biswarup Ganguly, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
A study with a draped armchair, a table piled with papers and books, and a fireplace behind them.Charles Darwin's study at Down House in Kent: his chair, and a table of papers and books within reach.Photo: "Charles Darwin's Study at Down House, Downe, Kent" by Glen from United Kingdom, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
A pen drawing of geared machinery on old paper: toothed wheels, an axle and a drum wound with rope.Machinery worked out in pen on a page of Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks, the Codex Atlanticus.Drawing: Leonardo da Vinci, public domain (author died more than 70 years ago), via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped by One Young India.

Part 4: Improvisation, play, creative courage and your question

An empty hall seen from its wooden stage: two microphone stands, a panel table and rows of blue seats under ceiling lights.The empty auditorium of the Ranchi Science Centre in Jharkhand, seen from its stage.Photo: "Auditorium" by Biswarup Ganguly, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Two long-necked Indian string instruments with round gourd bodies and rows of frets, laid side by side in a museum.A sitar and a surbahar, two North Indian string instruments, side by side at the Musical Instruments Museum in Brussels.Photo: "Sitar, Surbahar" by Miguel Discart, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
A small wooden box with one red button and a trailing cord, displayed in a museum case: an early computer mouse.Douglas Engelbart's prototype computer mouse: a plain wooden block with one button, kept at the Computer History Museum.Photo: "Douglas Engelbart's prototype mouse" by Michael Hicks from Saint Paul, MN, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped by One Young India.
An open old book: on the left a hand-coloured picture of dancers at a Christmas party, on the right the title page.The first edition of A Christmas Carol, 1843: a clean title page and a coloured picture by John Leech, with no sign of the struck-out lines.Scan: John Leech, public domain (published in 1843), via Wikimedia Commons.
A handwritten page so heavily corrected that whole lines are blacked out, with new words squeezed in above them.A page of Charles Dickens's manuscript of A Christmas Carol, 1843: whole lines struck out, new words squeezed in between.Scan: Charles Dickens, public domain (author died in 1870), via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped by One Young India.
VideoWhat Is Psychological Safety?From the channel Harvard Business Review. Watch the full video.
A handwritten poem on a small sheet of paper, the lines short and broken, with dashes and capital letters.A poem in Emily Dickinson's own hand, 1862.Scan: Emily Dickinson, public domain (author died in 1886), via Wikimedia Commons.
A notebook page in ink headed I think, with a small branching tree sketch and labels A, B, C and D.Charles Darwin's notebook, 1837: a rough tree of how species branch, under two words, I think.Scan: Charles Darwin, public domain (author died more than 70 years ago), via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped by One Young India.

The free preview

A stone stepwell seen from its top step: terraces of carved, pillared galleries step down between grassy banks.Rani-⁠ki-⁠Vav at Patan, Gujarat: a well and a flight of steps, built as an upside-down temple.Photo: "Rani ki vav" by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped by One Young India. The crop is shared under the same licence.
A thick tangle of living tree roots arching over a clear, rocky stream to form a footbridge in a forest.A living root bridge in Meghalaya: a footbridge grown from a living tree's roots.Photo: Joydeep Chakraborty, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped by One Young India. The crop is shared under the same licence.
An old engraved section and plan of a stepwell: flights of steps descend under pillared pavilions to a round well.Plan and section of the Madhava Vav, a stepwell at Wadhwan in Gujarat: flights of steps run down through pavilions, level by level, to the well.Drawing: Henry Cousens (1854-1933), public domain (Indian work whose copyright term has ended), via Wikimedia Commons.
A large wooden screw press in a whitewashed room: a thick upright screw, a long beam and a stone basin below.A wooden screw press for grapes, in a museum in Sicily.Photo: Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped by One Young India. The crop is shared under the same licence.
A row of small cast metal letters, reversed, locked in a metal composing stick on a dark cloth.Cast metal type for Thai script, set in a composing stick: one small block for each letter.Photo: Paul_012, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
A dark wooden hand press in a museum: a big screw and bar above a flat bed holding a block of metal type.Gutenberg's press as the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz shows it: turn the bar, and the screw presses paper down onto inked metal type.Photo: "Gutenberg's printing press in the Gutenberg Museum, Mainz, Germany" by dronepicr, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped by One Young India.

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