CONNECTING

How do you get started? First, you must understand the process called connecting. You’ve been collecting information for years. Connecting simply allows you to pull together all the pieces of this information. If you can only vaguely remember collecting information on a topic, you must give yourself time to let the stimulus of the project or topic rattle around in your subconscious. This time allows you to connect bits of information collected three years ago with bits collected three days ago. Time allows your brain to assemble a readout, much like that produced by a random search of a computer database. You input the topic, with the necessary parameters, and wait as your brain whirs, blinks, and connects. But you need to allow this ...

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