A Technique for Producing Ideas by James Webb Young
A Technique for Producing Ideas by James Webb Young A Technique for Producing Ideas summary This is my book summary of A Technique for Producing Ideas by James Webb Young. My notes are informal and often contain quotes from the book as well as my own thoughts. This summary also includes key lessons and important passages from the book. The quality of your work (and life) is a result of all the forces that have played upon you throughout life. The goal is to make the most of those forces. In learning anything, first you should learn the principles, then you should learn the method. Particular bits of knowledge are just “rapidly aging facts.” What matters are the underlying principles and methods. You can know every fact about an industry and still not be a real expert because you don’t understand the underlying principles and methods. What is most valuable to know is not where to look for a particular idea, but how to train the mind in the method by which all ideas are...