“The pieces, played on any node of the board, are ideas. Whenever there’s a link between the node you want to play and another node that has previously been played, you must also come up with a way to link the ideas.

That turns out to be an excellent basis for coming up with new ideas: all you have to do is forge a connection between two concepts. That connection happens in two places: on the board, and in the brains of the participants. This is no mere “put ideas up on a whiteboard” scenario: you’re giving people the opportunity to change the way they think.”

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