Harvesting Patterns

Although we’ve been talking a lot about harvesting great ideas, your ability to harvest thoughts and insights isn’t limited to Great Ideas. Your R-mode search engine can pattern match based on the merest fragment of a pattern to go on.

Cna yuo raed tihs?[67]

Aoccdrnig to rscheearch, it dseno’t mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are; the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses, and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef but the wrod as a whloe. Azanmig…

Your mind is quite adept at reconstructing reality based on fragmentary patterns. It can make associations based on incomplete ...

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