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CrazyBusy:
Timed testing is just another example of the bias in our world that favors speed.
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CrazyBusy:
What your mind is thinking about without your knowing is the source of your best ideas. The unconscious is like a great incubator.
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CrazyBusy:
The process of finding ideas and growing them, as painful and frustrating as it is, as rarely completed as it is, as demoralizing and depressing as it can be, is still the most advanced activity the human mind can engage in.
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CrazyBusy:
As is always the case when toxic emotions bubble up, attention loses the flexibility required for high-quality thought.
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CrazyBusy:
The greatest danger of being overwhelmed is not that you will fail to meet your goals, but that you will fail to think at your best and give birth to your best ideas.
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CrazyBusy:
If we are too busy, too overwhelmed, too goal directed and data driven, we will not notice the new ideas that roll into consciousness, and they will disappear.
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CrazyBusy:
To come up with the best ideas, people need time not only to stop and think, but also to fiddle around, to play with what they’ve got…
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CrazyBusy:
Today’s world provides us with too much data and not enough thought.
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CrazyBusy:
What separates the great innovator from the mere data gatherer is the ability to stop gathering data and think about what has been gathered.
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CrazyBusy:
…the broader meaning of play is an activity that can withstand… modern life; it is an activity that lifts a person out of the mundane into the most meaningful and productive realm.
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