keyword conscious and insight is an unexpected shift in…

Keyword insight keyword conscious and insight is an unexpected shift in the way we understand things. Insights have led scientists to many revelations. Insights are like gifts from the unconscious mind. Insight can come from certain attentional states so for example if you have emotional ambivalence which is the simultaneous experience of positive and negative emotions this increases your sensitivity to unusual associations. It seems that creative people have messy minds and messy emotions.

— from The Mind in the Cockpit · Wired to create by Scott Kaufman

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A degree of useful forgetting, of cognitive limitation, is part of what lets you think at all. And cultivate insight, the slow system's reward. Insight is an unexpected shift in the way you understand something — the sudden click when a known thing connects to a new one. You cannot force it by gripping harder; the great realizations tend to arrive when the brain is relaxed, solitary, and at peace, which is why you should actually schedule the daydreaming and the walks. — The Mind in the Cockpit

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