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We tell ourselves our best ideas are ahead of us, waiting until we've learned "enough." But inspiration doesn't work that way. 🧵1/
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The idea knows your mind has what it takes to deliver it to the world—whether you believe it or not.
What's your method for capturing inspiration before it fades away? 9/
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The idea knows your mind has what it takes to deliver it to the world—whether you believe it or not.
What's your method for capturing inspiration before it fades away? 9/
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It will leave.
It will find another way into the world. 8/
It will leave.
It will find another way into the world. 8/
If you don't capture that brilliant idea, it won't wait patiently for the next round of your random attention. 7/
If you don't capture that brilliant idea, it won't wait patiently for the next round of your random attention. 7/
Don't assume better ideas will come later because you're consuming more information or sophisticated concepts. Later isn't better. 6/
Don't assume better ideas will come later because you're consuming more information or sophisticated concepts. Later isn't better. 6/
You don't need to ensure you're ready ahead of the idea—there's no way to prepare for something you don't yet know exists.
Readiness only shows in how you handle the idea once it arrives. 5/
You don't need to ensure you're ready ahead of the idea—there's no way to prepare for something you don't yet know exists.
Readiness only shows in how you handle the idea once it arrives. 5/
You have to seize it. Do the work. Give it life.
Only then does it become truly yours. 4/
You have to seize it. Do the work. Give it life.
Only then does it become truly yours. 4/
Your brain doesn't manufacture inspiration on command or a need basis, no matter how hard you want it. 3/
Your brain doesn't manufacture inspiration on command or a need basis, no matter how hard you want it. 3/
You only get credit for recognizing it in that fleeting moment when it appears. 2/
You only get credit for recognizing it in that fleeting moment when it appears. 2/
Whether you are ready for it or not.
Whether you are ready for it or not.
But if you don’t act on it—or at least write it down—it won’t sit quietly in your mind, waiting for permission.
It will leave.
It will find another way into the world.
But if you don’t act on it—or at least write it down—it won’t sit quietly in your mind, waiting for permission.
It will leave.
It will find another way into the world.
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New research suggests our sense of free will and decision-making emerges from countless microorganisms working together within us. Thread 🧵
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Your body isn't just housing your consciousness - it's composed of countless conscious agents working together.
Your body isn't just housing your consciousness - it's composed of countless conscious agents working together.
Now imagine billions of these micro-intelligences coordinating within you, contributing to what you experience as "your" thoughts.
Now imagine billions of these micro-intelligences coordinating within you, contributing to what you experience as "your" thoughts.
Those "gut feelings" in decision-making? They might be literal communications from your microbial partners.
Those "gut feelings" in decision-making? They might be literal communications from your microbial partners.
We're ecosystems, not individuals.
We're ecosystems, not individuals.