Description
6 steps towards productive thinking:
1. The idea is conceived. 2. The idea develops. 3. The idea continues to develop - it melts, thaws, and resolves itself into a few. 4. The idea crystallizes as a conjoined set of opposites. 5. The idea is internalized, and develops even more. 6. "¡ Now I get it !"
Also note that step 6 is moving backwards in time to engulf step 3 -- Thought is a strange loop like that.