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Since I read John Cleese's advice to "keep your mind resting against the subject in a friendly but persistent way," that phrase has popped into my head on average several times a day. It so perfectly describes that m.o.https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/04/12/john-cleese-on-creativity-1991/ …
(In my own head I'd transformed it into "Lean against the problem in a friendly but persistent way," which I'll probably keep using.)
reminds me of hammock driven development https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc …
Thats The Lean Think-up
In my own head I visualize this like a non-newtonian fluid, like the potato starch and water mix kids love to play with.
Reminds me of something Keynes said about Newton's "unusual powers of continuous concentrated introspection" (h/t @EmanuelDerman):
"His peculiar gift was the power of holding continuously in his mind a purely mental problem until he had seen straight through it."
I see why you did there :)
But how you do it, when you have a deadline to meet
This is not for the kind of work you have do for an immediate deadline.
Buddhist meditative traditions teach "stream" and "sword" modes of attention on the object of contemplation, cycling naturally between relaxed/flowing mindfulness and forceful/penetrative focus. Seems rather similar to "resting" and "leaning" against the problem.
I’m still thinking about this tweet every day.
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