CHAPTER   6

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When Nothing Else Works, Creativity Will

I T WAS A dark and stormy night roughly 100,000 years ago during the last ice age. Harriette, an early human, ran into her cave. She was not having a good day. Sopping wet from the storm, she was further pummeled by pounding rain moving sideways into her cave. It was miserable. She then heard footsteps getting louder and louder from just outside the cave. “Oh, damn,” she thought. “What now?” Her shelter was primitive at best—just an opening in an outcropping of rocks—but it was the best she could do. She had some basic tools but nothing we would consider as being of any real utility today. ...

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