Engineered 'Weird' Thinking for Discovery

Discovery is not an automatic output of human minds but a fragile achievement that requires deliberately cultivating unusual, counterintuitive cognitive practices — a sequence of steps or 'rituals' that people must adopt to produce genuine breakthroughs. The claim reframes innovation as a learned, culturally engineered skill rather than just a matter of funding, talent, or time. — If true, policy and institutional design should focus less on scaling inputs (money, people) and more on building practices, environments, and education that deliberately produce the rare mental states and workflows that lead to discovery.