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Brainstorming may often substitute for missing insight accretion systems

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Brainstorming with others can create a fluid social context to exchange ideas, but when we brainstorm alone, we’re creating an expansive space to summon what we already “almost know.” The ideas we can have are primarily limited by our prior thinking and ideation in this space (see Leaps of insight emerge from prior thought).

Brainstorming with others can create a fluid social context to exchange ideas, but when we brainstorm alone, we’re creating an expansive space to summon what we already “almost know.” The ideas we can have are primarily limited by our prior thinking and ideation in this space (see Leaps of insight emerge from prior thought). A brainstorm’s generative, uncritical mindset might lead to surprising results, but often we also use brainstorming as a practical way to brain-dump all our ideas about a subject in one place. That may be a sign that we haven’t designed our knowledge systems as…

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