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The power of ideas as a starting point
Learning ideas are useful to a point. To make a general idea useful, some key obstacles need to be overcome:
- We need to notice the idea in other contexts. Research found that people tend not to apply patterns they learn to different domains unless prompted.
- We need to change the idea to suit our current purposes.
- Knowing about an idea is not the same as using it.
Ideas help, but it is just the start. Easy ideas in a field may be the only visible tip of deeper knowledge.
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