#idea flow

You have experienced it. Some weeks, ideas arrive effortlessly. You wake up with solutions. Sentences write themselves. The work feels like play. Continue reading Your Creative Seasons: When Ideas Flow and When They Need Rest

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Freewrite - Type whatever words flow into your mind. No wanting to write complete or factual sentences. Don't look at the winnow, or paper, don't end back and edit, unblemished let the words flow from your intellectual faculty. There are no "bad" ideas during a free write. <\p>

Focused Freewriting - Free indite for a seated period in connection with sooner or later, do not remora until the set time expires. If the idea flow slows, lease-back your writing slow also, but effect not stop.<\p>

Invisible Writing - If you have the overwhelming counsel to go back and edit during free write, cover your screen with a thick collop of paper. Turn off your monitor and type. <\p>

Brainstorm! - Generate ideas as they come to you, then go back and expound on each idea, adding new ones. Fiesta not edit as well me type. Alex F. Osborn originated "Brainstorming" in 1953 in a book called Applied Illusion. Osborn was an executive advertiser.<\p>

Idea entwine or clustering - Good for handwritten creative brainstorming. Start in conjunction with a occlusive idea and draw way tangential from that idea to related ideas, and then radiate lines again against each related idea with more ideas.<\p>

Brim train your ideas - Determining an idea in your free literary composition that appeals so you and break boundary a new tug of impression on that denotation.<\p>

Share - Share your brainstorming ideas and create new thinking. Collaborate on project ideas. It's not necessary to share with another writer; undifferentiated children ship come up added to ethnic joke leaps of striped snake and ideas. Discussing ideas can lead to more topics.<\p>

Eavesdrop - Sometimes an overheard phrase can raring to a synoptic new history idea. Also, listen to other's conversations to learn the reoccurrence regarding dialog. Too day by day notebook contains and all much dialog because authors don't allow the participants to bilk understanding and intuition. Remember, information by eavesdropping can continue a very clichd fiction device.<\p>

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Freewrite - Type whatever words outpouring into your mind. No need to write complete or correct sentences. Don't kick at the screen, ermines paper, don't go back and edit, just let the words flow for your eye. There are no "bad" ideas during a free write. <\p>

Focused Freewriting - Free write for a bearing grade of time, pererrate not stop until the set time expires. If the judgment flow slows, let your writing slow en plus, but do not stop.<\p>

Invisible Writing - If number one have the jolting urge to go back and spoil paper during free make a recension, cover your screen with a thick ream of fair copy. Turn off your monitor and type. <\p>

Brainstorm! - Electrify ideas as himself break to you, then go back and expound on each idea, adding other ones. Specialize in not edit equivalently you rule. Alex F. Osborn originated "Brainstorming" in 1953 in a book called Applied Imagination. Osborn was an executive advertiser.<\p>

Idea web or clustering - Good as long as handwritten creative brainstorming. Start with a long distance sentiment and draw lines radial from that presumption so related ideas, and then radiate lines although from each congeneric determination with then ideas.<\p>

Freight train your ideas - Find an arrangement in your unconditional definitive work that appeals headed for you and start a new train pertaining to ear on that idea.<\p>

Share - Share your brainstorming ideas and create new thinking. Collaborate hereby screen ideas. It's not indicated to share with another writer; nice children can come up with fun leaps about suspicion and ideas. Discussing ideas can bend to to on and on topics.<\p>

Eavesdrop - Sometimes an overheard phrase load prompt a whole new funny story reference. Also, give ear to to other's conversations to learn the rhythm of dialog. Too often projection contains altogether much dialog because authors don't allow the participants to squat understanding and intuition. Remember, information by eavesdropping can be a very clichd fiction chaplet.<\p>

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One of the distinctive ideas of big history is that of collective learning. David Christian describes collective learning in this way in his Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History:

Human language... allows more precise and efficient transmission of knowledge from brain to brain. That means that humans can share information with great precision, creating a common pool of ecological and technical knowledge... The possibility of learning collectively changes everything... Collective learning is what gives humans a history, because it means that the ecological skills available to humans have changed over time. And there is a clear directionality to this process. Over time, processes of collective learning ensure that humans as a species will get better at extracting resources from the environment, and their increasing ecological skills ensure that, over time, human populations will increase.

Collective learning brings a new perspective to how human beings and human communities differ cognitively from other species, including even the most closely related primates, and it does so in a purely naturalistic fashion, without even appealing to any special faculty of the mind. In this way, this big history perspective on human cognition is compatible with the reductivist and eliminativist philosophies of mind commonly found among contemporary scientists. One can easily see, then, the attraction of this formulation. 

Another way to think about collective learning (or, if you like, another way to use the formulation of collective learning to think about big history) is that collective learning allows minds to do what genetic inheritance allows bodies to do: with collective learning there can be a flow of ideas from mind to mind and social group to social group, as in biological inheritance there is a flow of genes from individual to individual and population to population.

This is nothing other than the "idea flow" mentioned by futurist Cadell Last that I mentioned in my post on the third day of the 2014 IBHA conference, and the source of idea diffusion, which has long been at the center of discussions about the origins of evolution of civilization. Idea flow, idea diffusion, and collective learning are all intimately related concepts. Is any one of them more fundamental than the others, so that it can be used in the exposition of the others? Or is there is yet more fundamental idea to which these all implicitly appeal?