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For more on brainstorming, here is a summary of the state-of-the-art evidence on how to do it.
The Osborne rules mentioned in the first bullet point are: (1) Don’t criticize (2) Be freewheeling: the wilder the idea, the better (3) Focus on quantity (4) Combine & build on ideas
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Some of the most crucial steps in [mental growth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_cognitive_development) are based not simply on acquiring new skills, but on acquiring new administrative ways to use what one already knows.
— Marvin Minsky,
Papert's Principle - Wikipedia
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My failure to anticipate this, I realized, was due to my
being surprised by something that hadn't happened in my lifetime, though it had happened many times before. The message that reality was conveying to me was
You better make sense of what happened to other people in other times and other places because if you won't know if these things can happen to you and, if they do, you won't know how to deal with them.
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