I recently read Steven Johnson’s “Where Good Ideas Come From”. It had some good ideas, even if the biological analogies were a stretch. The basic ideas are summed up at the end:
- Go for walks
- Get some sleep (it wasn’t mentioned in this book, but probably splitting up your night’s sleep would be good)
- Make Mistakes
- Have Hobbies
- Talk to strangers
- Mix ideas together
- Take good notes
- Live in or near a city
