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Inclining the Mind Toward “Sudden Illumination”: French Polymath Henri Poincaré on How Creativity Works
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this appearance of sudden illumination a manifest sign of long, unconscious prior work It might be said that the conscious work has been more fruitful because it has been interrupted and the rest has given back to the mind its force and freshness the usefulness of useless knowledge These sudden insp
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  • this appearance of sudden illumination
  • a manifest sign of long, unconscious prior work
  • It might be said that the conscious work has been more fruitful because it has been interrupted and the rest has given back to the mind its force and freshness
  • the usefulness of useless knowledge
  • These sudden inspirations (and the examples already cited sufficiently prove this) never happen except after some days of voluntary effort which has appeared absolutely fruitless and whence nothing good seems to have come, where the way taken seems totally astray

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