TED talk: A Powerful Way to Unleash Your Natural Creativity, Tim Harford
- slow motion multitasking for creativity
- multiple projects, and you move between them as your mood or the situation demands
- top research scientist changed topic 43 times in their first 100 resaarch papers (every 2nd or 3rd paper)
- easier to think outside the box if you spend your time climbing from one box to another
-- like creative strategy where you look for solution elements in different domains
- also 'unsticks' you from a problem through forgetting about the wrong answer (stuck) for a while
- problem: managing it all
- solution: some way to keep materials together, recorded,, so no great idea gets lost
-- (Thorp (ballet): boxes. Sanden (software/MV/VR): Diaries, project folders, tables)
-- (Harford): digital equivalent such as project diaries
- Darwin: projects spanning 44 years
- serious hobbies
- make a list of your projects. And get to work!