idea generation
Inclining the Mind Toward “Sudden Illumination”: French Polymath Henri Poincaré on How Creativity Works
Maria Popovathemarginalian.org
Our ideas appear primarily in one situation: when little else is occupying our thoughts…Good ideas require boredom. If you constantly ingest new information, the existing information can never be digested.
Nat Eliason • The Art of Fermenting Great Ideas The Art of Fermenting Great Ideas
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.
Every • Writing with Machines
