Learning to Eureka

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Napoleon, Buddha, Bill Gates — what makes them all great? According to a new book by Professor Bill Duggan, extraordinary achievements begin with strategic intuition, or flashes of insight in which the brain connects seemingly unrelated bits of information to solve a complex problem.

“Like leadership or judgment, sometimes it seems like some people have it and some people don’t,” said Duggan during an interview with The Invisible Hand. “The most important thing I’ve learned is that it's a normal function of the human mind. You can indeed learn it, and teach it.”

Many of us have had an “Aha!” moment. But whether your “Aha!” is about a shorter subway route or the meaning of life seems to depend on your situation. As Duggan points out, it was not Archimedes the cobbler who shouted, “Eureka!”



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