Sweat – the Research Phase

We now get into the meat of the STEP Prism of Insight. Starting with Sweat, the research phase, the chapter outlines a dozen different strategies designed to feed and satisfy your curiosity. This is the first step on the path to insight and should be adopted both chronically (for the insight problem at hand) and acutely (for insight problems more generally). From reading and travelling more widely to listening to podcasts, from seeking opinions well outside your echo chamber and comfort zone to watching a new TED talk each week, there are plenty of readily available, usually free ways of filling the hopper of your curiosity.