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NL888 Posted 12 years ago
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Failed to understand "epiphanies that blindsided them during midnight walks"
Could epiphanies (divine manifestations?) attack you unaware?
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2. Forget your ego, spend time with people that are bigger, smarter, fastest, and wiser than you. In an alternative universe where Jack Kerouac had trouble making friends, he ends up being the comic store guy in the Simpsons. Sharing ideas openly inspires creativity, territoritality hinders creativity. Think Mozilla Firefox versus Microsoft Windows.
3. Seek out opportunities to make errors. There's this idea that scientists create experiments to test out epiphanies that blindsided them during midnight walks through the woods and they work out, get published, and influence the world. Sounds too good to be true and it is. Most experiments "fail" and most hunches end up being "wrong." I placed these words in quotes because people that want to be creative slowly comb through the residue to find unexpected, complex bits and pieces. With a new storyline, and a few replications, science is on the track to making a tiny bit of the unknown known. Instead of trying to win points for guessing what the future brings, be ready to handle the uncertainty, ambivalence, complexity, and conflict that will arise. And if it doesn't arise, search harder because uncertainty is fertile territory for creativity.
Context:
2. Forget your ego, spend time with people that are bigger, smarter, fastest, and wiser than you. In an alternative universe where Jack Kerouac had trouble making friends, he ends up being the comic store guy in the Simpsons. Sharing ideas openly inspires creativity, territoritality hinders creativity. Think Mozilla Firefox versus Microsoft Windows.
3. Seek out opportunities to make errors. There's this idea that scientists create experiments to test out epiphanies that blindsided them during midnight walks through the woods and they work out, get published, and influence the world. Sounds too good to be true and it is. Most experiments "fail" and most hunches end up being "wrong." I placed these words in quotes because people that want to be creative slowly comb through the residue to find unexpected, complex bits and pieces. With a new storyline, and a few replications, science is on the track to making a tiny bit of the unknown known. Instead of trying to win points for guessing what the future brings, be ready to handle the uncertainty, ambivalence, complexity, and conflict that will arise. And if it doesn't arise, search harder because uncertainty is fertile territory for creativity.
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) attack you unaware? An 'epiphany' in modern parlance is a sudden realization or great idea.
- ) attack you unaware?
- An 'epiphany' in modern parlance is a sudden realization or great idea.
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NL888Could epiphanies (divine manifestations?) attack you unaware?An 'epiphany' in modern parlance is a sudden realization or great idea.
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Thanks.
So "(epiphanies that) blindsided them" means "(great ideas that) suddenly enlightened them"?
So "(epiphanies that) blindsided them" means "(great ideas that) suddenly enlightened them"?
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Yes. (Of course, the writer does not really believe that, as he goes on to say.)
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The collocation "epiphany... midnight..." seems to tell us that the writer is trying to creat a mysterios atmosphere.
Plus, I failed to get "it is" in "Sounds too good to be true and it is". It is what?
Plus, I failed to get "it is" in "Sounds too good to be true and it is". It is what?
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NL888The collocation "epiphany... midnight..." seems to tell us that the writer is trying to creat a mysterios atmosphere.Only slightly; that is not a main concern.
NL888 "Sounds too good to be true and it is". It is what?It is too good to be true...so it is not true.
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Thanks.
It ("it" sounds too good to be true) should refer to "this idea"(There's this idea that scientists create experiments to test out epiphanies that blindsided them during midnight walks through the woods and they work out, get published, and influence the world) ?
"This idea" comprises three par
It ("it" sounds too good to be true) should refer to "this idea"(There's this idea that scientists create experiments to test out epiphanies that blindsided them during midnight walks through the woods and they work out, get published, and influence the world) ?
"This idea" comprises three par
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NL888All the three parts as a whole sounds too good to be trueYes.
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