They fundamentally shifted the performance landscape by shattering old mindsets and stimulating new ideas for highly targeted attacks with far-reaching consequences.

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Most of us know the reasons: It helps us regain a sense of control, it shakes up our sense of time in a good way, it acts as a kind of therapy, promoting flexible and imaginative thinking and stimulating new ideas, and it can expand our cultural horizons.

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The Administration has supported this approach as part of its all-hands-on-deck approach to stimulating innovation, and under COMPETES we can expect a further blossoming of new ideas from citizen solvers across the land.

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