Humans are smart because we have evolved to connect with other brains.**
Matthew Syed

If you read books on different topics an different genres at the same time, your brain can’t help but find weird connections between them.^
Austin Kleon

I’m not claiming to be smart,
But I do hope to be smarter through being
open to others for the sake others.

Every morning, I am met
by a random group of writers and thinkers,^^ and
I never know what’s going to emerge.

*The bookshelf doesn’t have to be a physical one; it can be digital, visual, audible.
**Matthew Syed’s Rebel Ideas;
^Austin Kleon’s blog: Letting books talk to each other;
^^I have a shelf of twenty eight open books at the moment, which shuffle as I read from about four of these each day, together with around three or four blogs. Today’s randomly included Richard Rohr, Matthew Syed, Bina Venkataraman, Adam Kohane, Seth Godin, Gabe Anderson, Deepak Chopra, and Austin Kleon. When ideas are coming together within us, we are shaping our permission to do something – we don’t have to wait (something that spills over into tomorrow’s blog).