> 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?

> 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

> There is no longer much danger that we shall assume that man always and automatically thinks of ends and calculates means. The danger is that we may be too tired or too hopeless to undertake the conscious effort by which alone we can think of ends and calculate means.

The1920 preface to a third edition of a 1908 book makes me think of lines from Albert Camus in Neither Victims nor Executioners. We might be too tired to see what's wrong.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11634
#GrahamWallas #HumanNature