3-1d6 Constraints in the form of consistent style leave space for creativity and progress
Teacher anecdote:
4-2c 周辺的関心の方が中心的関心よりも活発に働く。脱線話の方が記憶に残る。
Good writing happens at the edge of explicit/inexplicit or explicit/unconscious — that is, via surprises.
1-1a5a A real essay doesn’t take a position and then defend it (deductive). It starts with a question (abductive), in trying to figure something out.
5-2b4b You have to keep finding surprises
9-2a2 You have to figure out where you are going by living abductively via surprises
AN3C - Don’t write the essay readers expect - one learns nothing from what one expects - be surprising.
You always have to be more than what you are supposed to be. You have to be surprising.
5-1b1b1 Become good at multiple things rather than being super good at one specific thing (the former is both easier and effective)
9-2a It’s easy to convince if people don’t know you enough for what you are not