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CM 240: Adam Alter on Simple Ways to Get Unstuck

Curious Minds at Work

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The Importance of Recognizing and Capitalizing on Near Misses

In your book, you say it's important to recognize and capitalize on near misses. I wonder if that's one of the reasons walking is so productive. There are some neurological explanations for it as well. You're physically and metaphorically loosening things up by walking. And that seems to turn on the force that the ideas tend to flow.

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