Pipeline for Tuesday, July 14, 2026

Struggle is not optimal--it's neurologically required: In order to get your skill circuitry to fire optimally, you must by definition fire the circuit suboptimally; you must make mistakes and pay attention to those mistakes; you must slowly teach your circuit. You must also keep firing that circuit--i.e., practicing--in order to keep myelin functioning properly.

What crosses our mind or "occurs" to us* comes from the unconscious.

Note 48: In German, the equivalent of "an idea crosses my mind/occurs to me" is: eine Idee faellt mir ein oder Ich habe einen Einfall, literally: an idea falls into me/invates me; I have an invasion.

Children can show tremendous talent, but they cannot be creative because creativity involves changing a way of doing things, or a way of thinking, and that in turn requires having mastered the old ways of doing or thinking.

At one moment I had more of this; at the next I had all of it. If there is anything I love about writing more than the rest, It's that sudden flash of insight when you see how everything connects. I have heard it called "Thinking above the curve" and it's that, I've heard it called "The over-logic" and it's that too. Et seq.

Cerebral dominance for melody "migrates" from right brain to left brain as the individual acquires musical training.

Book reference. Colin Wilson, The outsider.

The first chapter of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations makes it clear that the way for business to win is to break the production of goods into tiny tasks, tasks that can be undertaken by low-paid people following simple instructions.

It is argued that a radical innovator in artistic style cannot be comprehended or assessed according to the rules or standards of the previous style, because the innovation consists precisely in transcending these rules and standards. Instead, the novel work brings with it its own standards for evaluation.