Epiphanies Come From Waiting
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Epiphanies Come From Waiting
- Ideas sometimes seem to need days or weeks or months to get to a point where they feel fully formed. If you try to force a solution to a problem into a preset window of time, you will almost certainly reach a suboptimal solution.
I’ll often have ideas sitting in my focus folder for weeks or months and keep tossing thoughts into them, and then one d... See morefrom The Art of Fermenting Great Ideas by Nat Eliason
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- All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you're sitting around trying to dream up a great idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push... See more
from 3-2-1: The simple way to have a good day, why inspiration is unnecessary, playing small vs playing big
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- “It is nearly impossible to have your best idea the first time you think about something.
The most likely way to uncover important insights is to frequently revisit a problem. The longer you’re in the game, the more ideas bubble up to the surface.
Time unlocks insights.”from 3-2-1: Happiness, the Value of Risk, and the Importance of Ambition in Poetry by James Clear
Kyle Steinike added
- The framework for Strategic Intuition calls the moment before a creative spark a state of ‘presence of mind’, a moment in which diffuse-mode thinking connects the dots. Research suggests this is a pretty common occurrence:
In a 2019 study, 98 professional writers and 87 physicists recorded their most creative idea each day, as well as what they wer
... See morefrom Working Without Working: The Creative Night Shift
Tejas Gawande and added
- Good ideas appear out of nowhere, from seemingly unrelated concepts coming together and creating a new thought in your head. You can't force this process, your job is to recognize when they show up and take advantage of them.
from On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
sari added
Talking or writing about the things you're interested in is a good way to generate new ideas. When you try to put ideas into words, a missing idea creates a sort of vacuum that draws it out of you. Indeed, there's a kind of thinking that can only be done by writing.
from How to Do Great Work
Abhilash Rao and added
- I find for myself that my first thought is never my best thought. My first thought is always someone else’s; it’s always what I’ve already heard about the subject, always the conventional wisdom. It’s only by concentrating, sticking to the question, being patient, letting all the parts of my mind come into play, that I arrive at an original idea. B... See more
from How to Think: The Skill You've Never Been Taught by Farnum Street
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