graphical <-> verbal; list <-> verbal; you can also do expanded <-> condensed
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if you want to get fancy you can even translate between literary genres (verse <-> prose) or between languages
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anyway, the real pt of this is not to plagiarize SM’s excellent writers but to plagiarize yourself
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if you’re stuck or going slow or think the idea is hovering out of sight... or just are disappointed and know it can be better
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translating it between representations never fails
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now, part of the reason it never fails is that you realize what was confused/shitty in your first version
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(which is why this rly only works as a summary technique on v good writers - most of the time it just presses your nose in the incoherence and makes it harder to copy/repeat them)
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas
I took a surprisingly excellent elementary math teaching methods course once which talked about teaching math as a process of translating among concrete, to representational to verbal to abstract statements (and back of course)
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yeah i’ll bet you’d like alfred crosby’s books on this (also a more personal set of views scattered thru feynmann’s “surely...”)
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Someone like Feynman does this intuitively no doubt and spontaneously seeks out other types of stimuli/challenge that inform his sense of&development of abstractions, “he fixes radios by thinking!”& the stories about safe cracking/the spinning plate etchttps://www.google.com/amp/s/spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2016/03/20/becoming-a-scientist/amp/ …
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i see you are also a man of culture the bits i had in mind were in college where he uses topology to evaluate logical validity of phil arguments and in NM and after - abacus, cargo cult thinking, etc
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