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7 Thinking Divergently: Accessing the Connect Brainset

Ideas rose in crowds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination …

—HENRI POINCARÉ¹

WHILE THE ENVISION BRAINSET allows you to play out ideas, all within the safety of your mind, the connect brainset allows you to generate multiple ideas without concern about how they will play out. When you access the connect brainset, one idea leads to another and another.² Your brain becomes an idea-generating machine.

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