idea generation
Whatever you pay attention to is being fermented by your brain…Every tweet you read, every newspaper you glance at, every show you watch, every email you skim, it’s all feeding your subconscious things to process. And whatever it’s fed, it will ferment into ideas and reactions. So if you want to come up with better ideas, you must get extremely... See more
Nat Eliason • The Art of Fermenting Great Ideas The Art of Fermenting Great Ideas
Inclining the Mind Toward “Sudden Illumination”: French Polymath Henri Poincaré on How Creativity Works
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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
If you want to increase the quality of your work – your output – you must increase the level of your inputs. Your input is knowledge.
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