Justin Berg

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Former student of Adam Grant who studies creative idea generation

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Jayson (ListenPath host)Inside the Mind of the Music Industry: Understanding the Psychology of Listener Behaviour · Virality is Not the Answer: Why Emotional Depth Outlasts Alg... · 6:47 · 19 Jun
Justin Berg's landmark study published in Administrative Science Quarterly, which drew on data from the entire history of the US music charts, found that creative industries produce a disproportionate number of one-hit wonders who cannot replicate their initial success, and that the structure of how that initial success was achieved is the primary determinan…
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Adam GrantTED Talks Daily · Sunday Pick: Sci-fi writer Andy Weir doesn't love writing | ... · 14:46 · 12 Apr
…I have a former student, Justin Berg, who studied this, and he finds that we're pretty bad at creative forecasting.…
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