> 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

> Wallas outlines four stages of the #CreativeProcess
preparation,
incubation,
illumination, and
verification
dancing in a delicate osmosis of conscious and unconscious work... Wallas proposes a technique for optimizing the fruits of the Incubation stage — something our modern-day psychology of #productivity would come to confirm — by deliberately building interruptions of concentrated effort into our #workflow:
https://www.themarginalian.org/2013/08/28/the-art-of-thought-graham-wallas-stages/
#MariaPopova on #GrahamWallas #FourStagesOfThought