4. Fluctuate between thinking states and engaged states.
See this article: (https://fs.blog/2015/10/four-states-of-mind/ …)
You should not just think, think, think. @vgr 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.
@vgr 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.1 reply 0 retweets 1 likeShow this thread -
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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@vgr 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.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likesShow this thread -
7. A few questions, after having processed these 6 points. 7.1) While
@fortelabs 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@vgr talks about.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likesShow this thread -
7.2) While the entire point of
@RoamResearch and@andy_matuschak's evergreen notes is to facilitate these interconnections, I wonder what@vgr really means when he says, "The basis for this interconnection is blindness." Should we aim for interconnections or not quite?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likesShow this thread -
7.3) In one of
@andy_matuschak's podcasts, he said that learning for its own sake is not that useful. He learns X to do Y. I wonder if@vgr would consider learning X for Y as something to fluctuate b/w the thinking and engaged states.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likesShow this thread -
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,
@ShaneAParrish's specific questions, insights, and conversation were all extremely useful. Would love to hear thoughts/more questions...1 reply 0 retweets 0 likesShow this thread
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
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