The book
- trying to write thoughts 1-st thing in the morning.
- going for a walk may help solving the problem — but gotta avoid focusing on the problem (the L-mode), instead just bear it in mind.
- turn the thing on its head. Instead of fixing try to find way to break — that will show what to fix.
learning
may be improved by using mind-maps. Actually, it indeed may be useful in terms of: create an observatory mind-map, and then create new points and connections as you go. It will allow to find some connections that you would miss otherwise (that's basically experimentation and play).- imagining success (or creating environment where winning is easy) improves performance during the actual work.