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Ideas (The mind gathers its raw material. Goal:…
Ideas
- The mind gathers its raw material. Goal: kaleidoscope.
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Tools
Card-Index Method
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Advantages: 1) Order, 2) Disclosing knowledge gaps, 3) MOST IMPORTANT: Keeps you from shirking the material-gathering job... and forcing your mind to go through the expression of your material in writing really prepares it to perform its idea-producing processes.
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Pareto
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Rentier
Routine, steady-going, unimaginative, conserving people (whom the speculator manipulates)
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What is most valuable to know is not where to look for a particular idea, but how to train the mind in the method by which ideas are produced; and how to grasp the principles which are the sources of all ideas.
- An idea is nothing more nor less than a new combination of old elements.
2.The capacity to bring old elements into new combinations, depends largely on the ability to see relationships.
Speculative: ideas are a link in a chain of knowledge; they have relationships and similarities. A general law applying to a whole series of facts.
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- Cold, gray dawn of morning after
Do not hold your idea close to your chest. Submit it to the criticism of the judicious. An idea has self-expanding qualities. Gives rise to new possibilities.
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Feel for the meaning of different facts, and see how they fit together. Look for a relationship, a synthesis.
Facts sometimes yield up their meaning quicker when you do not scan them too directly, too literally.
- Put down on paper the little tentative or partial ideas that come to you (3x5). 2. Keep going... go after at least this second layer of mental energy in this process. Do not tire too soon. ....... After a while you will reach the hopeless stage.. everything is a jumble in your mind with no clear insight anywhere. When you reach this point, if you have first really persisted in efforts to fit your puzzle together , then then the second stage in the process is complete.
The habit of mind which leads to a search for relationships between facts becomes of the highest importance in the production of ideas.
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