> William Wordsworth—whose poetry is filled with tramps up mountains, through forests, and along public roads—walked as many as a hundred and eighty thousand miles in his lifetime, which comes to an average of six and a half miles a day starting from age five.
> What is it about #walking, in particular, that makes it so amenable to #thinking and #writing?
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/walking-helps-us-think
#FerrisJabr mentions #Wordsworth like #GrahamWallas did in The #ArtOfThought

> English social psychologist and #LondonSchoolOfEconomics co-founder #GrahamWallas, sixty-eight at the time, penned The #ArtOfThought — an insightful theory outlining the four stages of the #CreativeProcess, based both on his own empirical observations and on the accounts of famous inventors and polymaths.. out of print, with surviving copies sold for a fortune and available in a few public libraries..
https://www.themarginalian.org/2013/08/28/the-art-of-thought-graham-wallas-stages/
#MariaPopova #Thinking #Wallas Is #Incubation related to #niksen?

> “In the daily stream of thought these four different stages constantly overlap each other as we explore different problems.”
> .. #Wallas refers to a 1891 speech made by German Physicist, #HermannVonHelmholtz.. known for contributions in energy, electrodynamics, and thermodynamics.. the physicist described his process for creating new ideas..
> Wallas then elaborates on the meaning of verification by referring to #HenriPoincaré
https://www.designreview.byu.edu/collections/graham-wallas-the-creative-process
The #ArtOfThought #Helmhotz #Poincare

> You show beyond a doubt that people are reading more now than ever before in all history. . . .
> Very well, exactly. That is just the trouble... did it ever occur to you that you had within you the power to occupy your mind, and do it more profitably than all those assiduous readers? Briefly, did it ever occur to you to think?
I found #HenryHazlitt's #ThinkingAsAScience after seeing reference in #GrahamWallas's #FourStagesOfThought part of the book, The #ArtOfThought