Brain
When your brain thinks about a topic, it builds connections between different ideas in an anarchical process that you need to structure. Your new ideas emerge when you collude existing ideas from other people or from the past, present or future yourself.
Alexandre Dewez • Roam Research - Let me Introduce you to my Second Brain 🧠
So what is stopping me from stepping outside my habitual crap?
My mind, my limited mind.
The story of life is the story of the same basic mind readdressing the same problems in the same already discredited ways.
Maria Popova • George Saunders on How to Live an Unregretting Life
thinking is an active pursuit — one that often happens when you are spending long stretches of time staring into space, then writing a bit, and then staring into space a bit more. It’s here that the connections are made and the insights are formed. And it is a process that stubbornly resists automation.
Casey Newton • Why note-taking apps don't make us smarter
- The creative process is the ability to relate old and new ideas. This means creative thinking is the task of recognizing relationships between concepts.
James Clear • For a More Creative Brain Follow These 5 Steps
In 1964, neuropsychologist Roger Sperry drew an analogy between neurons and ideas:
Ideas cause ideas and help evolve new ideas. They interact with each other and with other mental forces in the same brain, in neighboring brains, and thanks to global communication, in far distant, foreign brains.
Maria Popova • Networked Knowledge and Combinatorial Creativity
When we interrupt the instinctual simplifying, organizing, and categorizing processes of our brain, we create a mental space for added layers of complexity and meaning. Our thoughts become more nuanced and textured. Our senses are awakened and engaged.
Cliff Guren • Learning How to Un-See — Cliff Guren
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