if you were to study your own brain introspect how do you think what's your thinking process like we'll talk about the writing process of putting it down on paper uh which is quite rigorous and famous at uh Amazon but how do you when you sit down maybe alone maybe with others and thinking through this High dimensional space and looking for Creative Solutions creative paths forward is there something you can about that process it's such a good question and I honestly don't know how it works if I did I would try to explain it I know
it involves lots of wandering yeah so I you know when I sit down to work on a problem I know I don't know where I'm going so to to go in a straight line to be efficient efficiency and invention are sort of at odds because invention real invention not incremental Improvement incremental Improvement is so important in in every Endeavor in everything you do you have to work hard on also just making things a little bit better but I'm talking about real invention real lateral thinking that requires wandering and you have to give yourself permission to
wander I think a lot of people um they feel like wandering is inefficient and should you know like when when I sit down at a meeting I don't know how long the meeting is going to take if we're trying to solve a problem because if I did then I'd already I I know there's some kind of straight line that we're drawing to the solution the reality is we may have to wander for a long time and I do like group invention I think there's really nothing more fun than sitting at a whiteboard with a a
n you know a group of smart people and spitballing and coming up with new ideas and objections to those ideas and then solutions to the objections and going back and forth so like um you know sometimes you wake up with an idea in the middle of the night and sometimes you sit down with a group of people and go back and forth and both things are really pleasurable and when you wander I think one key thing is to notice a good idea and to to to maybe to notice the kernel of a good idea maybe
pull it that string cuz I I don't think uh good ideas come fully formed 100% right in fact when I come up with what I think is a good idea and it survives kind of the first level of scrutiny you know that I do in my own head and I'm ready to tell somebody else about the idea I will often say look it is going to be really easy for you to find objections to this idea but work with me there's something there there's something there and that is intuition yeah you because it's really easy
to kill new ideas in the beginning because they do have so many so many easy objections to them so you need to uh you need to kind of forewarn people and say look I know it's going to take a lot of work to get this to a fully formed idea let's get started on that it'll be fun so you got that ability to say cosign in you somewhere after all maybe not on math in a different domain yeah there are a thousand ways to be smart by the way and that is a really like when
I go around you know and I meet people I'm always looking for the way that they're smart and you find it is that's one of the things that makes the world so interesting and fun is that it is not it's not like IQ is a single y Dimension there are people who are smart in so such unique ways yeah you just gave me a good response to when somebody calls me an idiot on the internet you know that's a thousand ways to be smart sir well but they might tell you yeah but there are a
million to be ways to be done yeah right I feel like that's a Mark Twain quote
