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The Idea compass: A good tool to use for idea generation, reading comprehension, and note-taking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rnsULzez-g&list=PL30jbp8g9G5m8xJrOFnbN3z2LrSLeA57A&index=31
Start somewhere bad to get somewhere good. A few weeks ago, I interviewed psychologist Adam Alter about his book Anatomy of a Breakthrough . In it, he writes about the “creative cliff illusion,” the notion that good creative ideas will either come quickly or not at all. Unfortunately, our intuition has that one approximately backward. In studies of... See more
David Epstein • Pour Out Lesser Ideas to Get to Great Ones
If you want to increase the quality of your work – your output – you must increase the level of your inputs. Your input is knowledge.
You're bound to get idears if you go thinking bout stuff.
-Grapes of Wrath
What humans do best is see information in our environment, synthesize it, and connect it with related ideas in novel ways. But it’s much harder for us to come up with something out of nothing. It helps a lot to have something to react to.