Hard Work's Overrated, Maybe Detrimental. | Design & Innovation | Fast Company - The Diigo Meta page

• 19 Oct 09
  

  Cherice Montgomery

  cognition creativity play innovation

  • Putting yourself in
    the right place where information is flowing freely and interesting new
    juxtapositions can be seen.
  • How do you set aside the mind space to see patterns, make connections, and read what people want? How do you find the right thing to work on?
• 13 Oct 09
  

  Karl Guevara

  Weniger arbeiten, um den Gedanken freien Lauf zu lassen (Tagträumen) und dem Unterbewusstsein das Problemlösen zu überlassen.

  work notwork creativity daydream like quote

  • We agreed
    that a lot of what we then considered "working hard" was actually
    "freaking out".
  • Much more important than working hard is knowing how to find the right
    thing to work on.
  • 4 more annotations...
  • • Putting yourself in
      the right place where information is flowing freely and interesting new
      juxtapositions can be seen.
    • It turns out that the best way to find breakthrough ideas might be to avoid working hard.
    • By most measures, we spend about a third of our time daydreaming,
      yet our brain is unusually active during these seemingly idle moments.
    • the flypaper of an unfocused mind may trap new
      ideas and unexpected associations more effectively than methodical
      reasoning.
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  Michael K.

  hard work desk productivity mind

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