So I described this thing about neurons, connections, and wiring... how the wiring makes a difference.
And I described yesterday how I go about using my neurons, connections, and wiring in my own profession, beginning with a riff on neurons that fire together wire together... and ending with diffuse thinking.
The process of writing about all that brought up another strategy I use when I'm trying to do some mental heavy lifting. It's actually a kind of combination of the two in which I send into my mental vault specific information that might be helpful... but I don't know how or why.
Most recently, I picked up a book at Value Village that was related in a way to what I was working on but, once I started reading it, it wasn't exactly what I thought. And then...
And then...
And then later I'm struggling with what I'm struggling with when I get this idea.
Hey. Why don't you frame this like the author of that book you're reading?
BAM.
I'm not completely sure what's going on when "I'm" choosing what to send into my brain's vault... but the strategy works. It's a way of putting my thumb on the scale when I'm struggling with some creative challenge. I'll add one or two or more ingredients that seem likely. I don't know for sure and I don't why I know which ones to add but...
Yeah.
I know which ones to add.
It's a development in how I work that showed up last in my mental tool box. Something I figured out late in the game. Which is another reason I believe we can intentionally direct our neurons in specific ways and that we can cause that wiring to change, adapt, and rewire.
For me, I had to learn about myself and how my brain works over time, experience, and repetition.
Woulda been great to get there sooner but there you go and there you are.










