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Teach Yourself Anything with the Sandbox Method
For 12 years, you’re been trained to apply information that’s pre-packaged for you.
But if you want to do anything independent (entrepreneurship, creative work, etc.) then you have to be able to figure things out without being handed the knowledge beforehand.
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Is the ability to generate many ideas or solutions from a single idea or piece of information.
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