Fortune. 2017. "Unlocking your big ideas" Fortune March 15: 82-89.
"Excerpted from The Net and the Butterfly: The Art and Practice of Breakthrough Thinking, by Olivia Fox Cabane and Judah Pollack, published on Feb. 7, 2017, by Portfolio, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group"
"Neuroscientists have recently discovered that the secret to breakthroughs lies in our ability to swtich between two modes, the focused and the meandering."
"[The focused mode] It's the one you use to executive, to get things done. Goal-oriented and deadline-focused, it's a champion at making lists, following timelines,and coming in under budget. This part of your brain responsible for this mode is called the executive network, or EN.".
"But your EN alone can't create breakthroughs. It needs help from the more meandering network, the one that creates shower moments. This is our creative network, the default network, or DN. You can think of the DN as a council of breakthrough geniuses inside your brain. The geniuses talk and exchange ideas, half-baked theories, and wild speculations. The DN is the source of all our creativity, all our invention, all our genius..."
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