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How Great Ideas Happen: The Hidden Steps Behind Breakthrough Success by George Newman is a research based nonfiction book about creativity, innovation, and problem solving. Newman, a cognitive scientist, challenges the familiar image of creativity as a sudden flash of inspiration granted to unusually gifted people. Instead, he presents creative work as a discoverable and repeatable process, closer to archaeology than magic. The book argues that strong ideas are often latent in existing materials, patterns, constraints, and problems, and that effective creators learn how to search for them deliberately. Its purpose is both explanatory and practical: it interprets what research suggests about how ideas emerge, while giving readers a structured method for finding, developing, and judging their own ideas. Drawing on examples from art, music, film, science, and business, Newman positions creativity as a skillful form of exploration rather than a mysterious personal trait.