As I have been thinking about teachable concepts related to ingenuity, I have settled on a cluster of three guiding ideas or nodes that I have connected to other supporting concepts and practices. The three neural nodes embody the concepts of watchfulness, brainstorming and building. Other ideas may be substituted but these three make sense to me. We pay attention to what is around us or to a problem or a great solution, whether made by people or naturally occuring. We then work at making connections to something we are trying to work out by getting a great flow of ideas going. This leads to building or creating something (or formalizing an idea if our work is more theoretical). This isn't a strictly linear process as these concepts feed back on themselves. I have also added three more supporting concepts to each of these, like a fractal pattern, that feed each of the three primary nodes and which could also connect to each other, making the number of possible combinations - even at this simple level - extremely numerous.
I'm still working it out but it does help me to formalize aspects of what I already do personally and professionally so that I can talk to other people about it and work it into my life more intentionally. I am planning on doing a brief audio blogs on each of these nodes and the sub-nodes as a way of introducing them. More to follow.
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