Once you see success, stick to a narrower than expected approach. It helps one become substantially more focused on what they work on, reflecting an exploitation strategy during hot streak.  Experimentation and implementation of learning is the formula for a hot streak.

Switch Your Approach, Focus

Scientists are more likely to try new things with small teams before a hot streak and large teams when it begins. Your future work is to analyze how long your experimentation period should be.

Experimentation of process

"About 90% people have at least one hot streak" says Prof Dashun Wang, NWU.  To facilitate a breakthrough, create an environment that will help achieve your full potential. Your work would be more diverse before you see a true hot streak.

One Hot Streak

Those in creative careers often see a burst of success. That burst or a "hot streak" is seen right after an experimental phase of focus on one approach.  Many creatives find themselves on a roll at some point in their career, like Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings trilogy), but when it exactly happens is absolutely random.

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Researchers use AI to reveal runs of artistic success are commonly preceded by an experimental phase

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