MINUTES of a MONDAY #95

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BRAIN FOOD > The Idea Next Door

“The example of joint discovery suprised me, but it would not have surprised the science fiction writer Steven Johnson. In his book Where Good Ideas Come From, Johnson explains that such “multiples” are frequent in the history of science.

Consider the discovery of sunspots in 1611: As Johnson notes, four scientists, from four different countries, all identified the phenomenon during the same year. The first electrical battery? Invented twice in the mid-eighteenth century. Oxygen? Isolated independently in 1772 and 1774. In one study, researchers from Columbia University found just shy of 150 different examples of prominent scientific breakthroughs made by multiple researchers at the same time.

Big ideas, Johnson explained, are almost always discovered in the “adjacent possible.”

Johnson went onto say “We take the ideas we’ve inherited or that we’ve stumbled across, and we jigger them together into some new shape.”

The next big ideas in any field are found right beyond the current cutting edge, in the adjacent space that contains the possible new combinations of existing ideas.”

Extract from Cal Newport’s book So Good They Can’t Ignore You.

SOUL FOOD:

“Einstein didn’t invent the theory of relativity while he was multitasking at the Swiss patent office.”

David Meyer, cognitive scientist at the University of Michigan.

LOL:

Joe Biden reminding me of myself on a Monday morning:

APPENDIX:

“You have been formed of three parts - body, breath and mind. Of these, the first two are yours insofar as they are only in your care. The third alone is truly yours.”

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations.

A.O.B

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