Cultural Offering has distracted me ... again.
Don't extinguish the fire of your imagination by being a slave to your ideas.
- Vincent van Gogh
Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.
- Emile Chartier
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake? He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci
When we're faced with a difficult problem, the most obvious solution—that first idea we focus on—is probably wrong. At such moments, it often helps to consider far-fetched possibilities, to approach the task from an unconventional perspective. And this is why distraction is helpful: People unable to focus are more likely to consider information that might seem irrelevant but will later inspire the breakthrough. When we don't know where to look, we need to look everywhere.
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Or, when all else fails ...
Get outside!
- Dad
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