Pragmatic Thinking and Learning

Harvest R-mode Cues

Despite years of being ignored, your R-mode remains hard at work, toiling away in the background to match up disparate facts, make far-flung associations, and retrieve long-lost bits of important data from the morass of otherwise uninteresting memories.

In fact, it’s entirely possible that your R-mode already has exactly the answer to the most important problem that you’re working on right now.

But how can you get at it? We’ll spend the rest of this chapter looking at techniques to help invite, coax, ferment, and jiggle great ideas out of your head.

You Already Know

You may already have that great idea or know the solution to that impossibly vexing problem.

Your brain stores every input it receives. However, even though ...