{"id":50292,"date":"2016-05-22T19:55:08","date_gmt":"2016-05-22T19:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=50292"},"modified":"2016-05-22T19:55:08","modified_gmt":"2016-05-22T19:55:08","slug":"doing-it-right-doing-it-wrong-it-could-be-your-sunday-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=50292","title":{"rendered":"Doing it right, doing it wrong, & it could be your Sunday surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Cameron<\/strong> — a quick note about putting the mind through hoops, aka connecting dots ]
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For the record, the mind is not a phalanx but a swarm<\/strong> — IOW it gets creative when the links are leaps, not serried ranks.<\/p>\n

So when your evidence board, memory jolt, graphical display looks like this (and it’s not the unavoidable dimness of the screen-grab I’m talking about):<\/p>\n

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the mind won’t see as many possibilities as when it’s more like this:<\/p>\n

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**<\/p>\n

Randomize. Create uneven spaces between items. Shift items around. The idea here is to create fresh possibilities, not to look tidy.<\/p>\n

I had a friend once who was an artist. His studio and his life were both disasters — and in his studio, in the middle of that life, he created dazzling, gorgeously colored and delicately graduated geometric patterns — as though he was a disorder organizer<\/strong>, and the more disorderly his input, the greater the precision of his output.<\/p>\n

Think about that.<\/p>\n

Here is what may be a diagrammatic version of what I’m saying<\/a>, or maybe not, but which stirs my mind in any case, just thinking about it — from Ron Scroggin<\/strong> about a year ago, shared in John Kellden<\/strong>‘s Conversations on G+<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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**<\/p>\n

Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  • Evidence board<\/strong>, The Killing, series 3 episode 8<\/a>\n
  • Al Qaida board<\/strong>, Manhunter<\/a><\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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