[sirpilade]

I totally agree with your comment. I should add that, as the Romans used to say quite some time ago, 'Audentes fortuna juvat' (fortune favors the bold). With this I mean to say that some more optimistic and unmindful attitude usually helps in finding those doors, or at least in forgetting the ones that did not eventually open.

[weakfish]

Hmm, I’m curious what you mean by unmindful. I feel that a mindful (as in meditation mindfulness) and grounding oneself in the present would _help_ find doors, rather than being unmindful (I.e. wrapped up in future or past thinking)

[sirpilade]

well, I meant unmindful as in trying to forget that to get to the point where you stand today you had to pass past some doors that you decided not to open. A child-like attitude towards discovery, free from preconceptions. Then, after discovery, we should ground ourselves and leverage from our adult experience. My own experience with great thinkers I knew (some Nobel-prize level) is that we need to go from moments of imagination to moments of reality check many times. Kind of the same line as Feynman’s experience