Abstraction of ideas

One of the ways you can manipulate ideas is abstraction. This involves taking an idea away from its original context and viewing it alone. This necessarily removes details from the idea but leaves the core structure.

This abstraction can be part of the process of creating new ideas through compounding or forming relationships between existing ideas.

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• Three ways to manipulate ideas
  • Abstraction of an idea
• Abstract ideas by building patterns
  • Abstract ideas within a note-taking system by building patterns within your notes. These represent the over-arching ideas that form from seeing the same idea repeated, and can be applied to new contexts to create new ideas.