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To: maceng2 who wrote (177121)	8/25/2021 8:50:40 AM
From: sense	1 Recommendation Recommended By maceng2 Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218841

I think that most potential breakthroughs that might win Nobel prizes... Are discarded as inconveniences to be overcome as some annoyance in a process is obstructing progress on the way toward reaching a specified goal... Those observing .. want to find out how to avoid the "problem"... rather than learn about what drives some unexpected behavior that is observed... Or, they are so intent on forcing the answer to fit into the box they've already built for it... that they're preventing themselves from seeing "what is" in a more gloriously full description that they're looking at without seeing... But, I think... pursuing the "that's odd" issues, that do pop up... with at least a portion of time... is a vastly better idea... First because it might prove to be a far more important thing than what you were working on anyway.... Second. because the work with intense focus on "the goal"... which the "what is" element in science doesn't care about at all... can become far too limiting... the narrowing if focus often leading you away from solutions instead inviting your mind too them... So, sustaining a basic level of curiosity in the esoterica that one encounters incidentally... isn't wasting time... but is keeping your mind open, and prepared to see "what is" in ways it would not be, otherwise... In my lab... I don't think we spent more than half of our time at work doing the work we were "supposed" to be doing... but, we seemed to be around 5 times more productive than others... while still reaching "the goal" years ahead of others... Discovery isn't just persistence... as much as it is persistence paired with openness to seeing what others don't... so the mind broadening is critical.... including the deliberate bits of that which I've mentioned as "choosing points along the line" to see issues from multiple perspectives... that others are ignoring... or can't, or won't choose to accept ? FWIW