Anne-Laure Le Cunff
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Anne-Laure Le Cunff
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In French, “cultiver son jardin intérieur” means to tend to your internal garden—to take care of your mind. The garden metaphor is particularly apt: taking care of your mind involves cultivating your curiosity (the seeds), growing your knowledge (the trees), and producing new thoughts (the fruits).
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • You and Your Mind Garden
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These tasks, along with creative idea generation tasks used in our laboratory, constitute useful tools in uncovering possible brain correlates of creative thinking. Nevertheless, much more work is needed in order to establish reliable and valid measures of creative thinking, in particular measures of novelty or originality of creative insights.
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The Cynical Genius Illusion: Exploring and Debunking Lay Beliefs About Cynicism and Competence
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“Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the furthest thing from it.” – Stephen Colbert.
A mind garden is not a mind backyard. It’s not about dumping notes in there and forgetting about them. To tend to your garden, you need to plant new ideas. The best way to do this is by replanting stems and cuttings from existing ideas you’ve added to your garden—by consistently taking notes, and combining them together, a bit like grafting.