That’s part of the everyday practice: always look for more stuff to study, in particular when a new idea comes to mind, first try to find more on it in the existing science, and only if nothing seems to be related, commit to trying to develop it yourself. And still, never stop searching for the related stuff in the background.
“If the problem is hard, study all the approaches you can find to thinking about even slightly related problems.”
Read voraciously, do your homework.
Well, okay, but here I’m listing things that I actually find myself thinking out loud during a typical working day. Not just general good advice.
That’s part of the everyday practice: always look for more stuff to study, in particular when a new idea comes to mind, first try to find more on it in the existing science, and only if nothing seems to be related, commit to trying to develop it yourself. And still, never stop searching for the related stuff in the background.
Feeling this one. So odd how having a really solid grounding in a subject allows you to work out what later seems to be basic truths.