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Give It a Second Life
Somewhere in your home there is an object that has outlived its original purpose but not yet accepted the fact. It is not broken enough to justify throwing away, not useful enough to justify keeping, and it has been sitting in a drawer, on a shelf, or in a box labelled "miscellaneous" for long enough that it has started to feel like a permanent resident rather than a problem to solve. You have walked past it several hundred times. Each time, you have thought: I should probabl
The Mind Already Knows What Complexity Is
New research in cognitive science suggests that the brain represents complexity as a single unified quantity across all sensory domains - and what that means for how we teach, practise, and understand creative thinking. A paper published in Nature Human Behaviour earlier this month by Tal Boger and Chaz Firestone at Johns Hopkins University makes a claim that, on the surface, sounds almost too tidy to be true: complexity is a unified cognitive kind. Across eleven experiments
What the Johari Window Can't Reach on Its Own
The Johari Window, developed by Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingham in 1955, is a genuinely useful model - four quadrants mapping what is known and unknown to self and others - but it quietly assumes that the raw material of self-knowledge is already present, waiting to be organised. Feedback expands the Blind Spot. Disclosure shrinks the Hidden Area. The Open Area widens. The Unknown quadrant, however - the territory where neither you nor anyone else yet has access - receives
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