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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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7.3) 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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