Ask HN: Video talk about leveraging unconscious mind for problem solving?
The (male) speaker de-emphasized coding as such and framed the activity as "solving problems", especially hard problems, and went on present motivations for a series of stages (about 4-5) to improve chances for getting the insights and ideas needed. Some of the stages were roughly:
- Step away from the computer Think about the problem. Write and draw about the problem. Engage intensely with it to load it into your unconscious/background mind.
- Stage with "gestation" or "incubation" of ideas. Letting the brain work away at it in the background. Relaxation, quite possibly something about getting exposure to new impressions which can work as building blocks and inspiration for a solution.
- "Unplug" - eliminate distractions while working on the solution. For instance, get rid of background music, keep sounds and interruptions from your colleagues to a minimum.
He possibly suggested "How To Solve It" by Polya and a couple of similar books at some point. He possibly advocated for intermittently reading research papers and other texts with complex ideas which had taken a lot of work to develop, even if only partially understanding them, again as a sort of building blocks for new ideas and insights.
Do you recognize this?
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[ 4.1 ms ] story [ 21.0 ms ] threadUnfortunately I seem to have amalgamated two different presentations in my memory then, so I'm still missing one. Similar ones that were good?