How Do We Identify Good Ideas?

Interesting article from Wired Science Blogs/Frontal Cortex:  How Do We Identify Good Ideas? by Jonah Lehrer:  "I've always been fascinated by the failures of genius" - what enables good self-editing? The article cites a new study by Simone Ritter at the Netherlands Radboud University to explore this question - and its the activity of the unconscious mind, in addition to solid reflection.

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...wasting less time searching for epiphanies that don't exist....