Feynman famously said:
“You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present in your mind, although by and large they will lay in a dormant state. Every time you hear a new trick or a new result, test it against each of your twelve problems to see whether it helps. Every once in a while, there will be a hit, and people will say, ‘How did he do it? He must be a genius!”
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Newsletter: 12 favorite problems, POP writing & how to ask better questions, 12 favorite problems? What’s that about? It’s an exercise at the start of every Building a Second Brain and Write of Passage cohort, inspired by Nobel-Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman. <span>Feynman famously said: “You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present in your mind, although by and large they will lay in a dormant state. Every time you hear a new trick or a new result, test it against each of your twelve problems to see whether it helps. Every once in a while, there will be a hit, and people will say, ‘How did he do it? He must be a genius!” By writing down and defining the problems you want to solve, your brain will subconsciously start looking for solutions. (Like when you want to buy a certain type of car and suddenly yo Summary
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