Inclining the Mind Toward “Sudden Illumination”: French Polymath Henri Poincaré on How Creativity Works

" I think what’s funny is that I used to marvel for a long time why my best ideas — and by ideas, I don’t mean the ideas about what to write or all of that, but just insights on the truths of my experience, of the human experience, whatever. Those ideas, the best of them came to me at the gym or on my bike or in the shower. I used to have these ela... See more

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

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