4. Fluctuate between thinking states and engaged states.
See this article: (fs.blog/2015/10/four-s)
You should not just think, think, think. talks about a hypothetical person having gone to grad school and college for 15 years, whose mind is shut to reality.
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4.1. At the same time, you should not just act, act, act. It's important to engage, but it's also important to think, at the same time.
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5. Creativity is not 'connecting things from different domains.'
This was perhaps the most insightful. says that the basis for this interconnection is blindness. He says that forming connections is an "addictive process." Information gets wired up in different ways.
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5.1 But the basis for that information and interconnection is blindness. Mental models then grow in their complexity and snowball into a "richly interconnected web of ideas."
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6. also says that the real, most valuable insights come when you don't have a meta-process for reading or taking notes. They come because of randomness.
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7. A few questions, after having processed these 6 points.
7.1) While is mainly about building a second brain and having a system set in place to process all the information, I wonder whether that system harms the actual, creative process, as talks about.
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7.2) While the entire point of and 's evergreen notes is to facilitate these interconnections, I wonder what really means when he says, "The basis for this interconnection is blindness." Should we aim for interconnections or not quite?
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7.3) In one of 's podcasts, he said that learning for its own sake is not that useful. He learns X to do Y. I wonder if would consider learning X for Y as something to fluctuate b/w the thinking and engaged states.
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7.4) Above all, though, I'd really love to learn how, if at all, we can resolve this tension b/w forming interconnections, different ways of processing information, and the best way to optimize for the most valuable insights (if at all this process can be optimized.)
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Regardless, 's specific questions, insights, and conversation were all extremely useful.
Would love to hear thoughts/more questions...
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this podcast is really old so I have zero idea what I said or what I meant by what I said
statute of limitations... use any ideas at your own risk :D

