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Improving Idea Flow - Nat Eliason
Improving your idea-flow
A lower idea-flow is this sense that you don't have as many ideas as you used to. Reading more encourages ideas to flow.
You can't create time, you can only re-allocate it. To find the time for improving your idea-flow means that you have to find ways to cut back on other things.
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- Doing more than you have time for.
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The right way to improve critical thinking
Debating problems
Many well-known problems of human reasoning disappear once you get a group of people together and let them talk about it.
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...doesn’t happen because you’ve studied some abstract logical form and come to valid deductions.
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