Judah Pollack, co-author of “The Net and the Butterfly: The Art and Practice of Breakthrough Thinking,” shares two mental exercises for enhancing your imagination and exploring how you feel about such open-ended thinking. He describes how new ideas are the result of new neural pathways forming in the brain, and how the mind’s plasticity is core to having more breakthrough ideas.
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