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The recipes for new ideas

The recipes for new ideas

How do Eureka moments happen? They do feel contingent & magical, arising in consciousness on their own. But looking at the history of breakthrough ideas there seem to be a rough 2-phase process: 

  1. An initial period of concentration, study, tinkering aka  “worrying” about a problem or idea, followed by .....
  2. Unconscious processing. This may mean walking, running, meditating etc... 

It's that feeling of being untethered that gives the mind free rein to recombine the information from step 1 into something new. 

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vladimir

Life-long learner. Passionate about leadership, entrepreneurship, philosophy, Buddhism & SF. Founder @deepstash.

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