创造性思维的来源之一是好奇心和想象力
为什么？因为我们后来学的知识都是有框架和设定的，不管什么知识都是这样。在学习这些知识的时候，你的好奇心、想象力往往会挑战这些知识框架，但在绝大多数情况下，你的挑战是错的。因为经常受到打击和否定，所以客观上压制了你的好奇心和想象力。连爱因斯坦都曾经感叹，好奇心、想象力能在正规教育中幸存下来，简直就是一个奇迹。
创造性思维的来源之二，是有更高追求的价值取向
对短期功利主义者而言，创新是为了发论文、申请专利、公司上市；对长期功利主义者而言，创新有更高的追求，为了填补空白、争国内一流、创世界一流；而对内在价值的非功利主义者而言，创新有更高的追求：追求真理、改变世界、让人变得更加幸福。
胜果君：长期、短期并不绝对互斥。以下引自《博士学位不够》。发论文是刚需。长期战略是将长期目标分解为一个个短期目标。短期目标就是发论文（下文中所说的publon“可辨识可发表的里程碑”）。还可以同时做多个项目，长期功利与短期功利并行。
Timing Is Everything。
Timing is one of the most important issues in establishing your research direction. A problem that will take two years to finish must not be the main focus of your activities if you are a postdoc and will be looking for a permanent position in a year and a half.
Strategic Thinking
The most obvious is to aim at an important long-term goal by planning your work as a sequence of short-term projects. Each of the latter should yield an identifiable and publishable milestone (a “publon”; see Chapter 5).
Another important strategy for establishing a successful scientific career is to work on more than one project at a time.
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