The hardest thing about imagining how growth works is that it demands that you comprehend a whole complex system at once. Of course you inevitably have to guess about the edges and plug in some stock images where your observations or brain power are lacking, because the feat is always just a little too much to handle. Pick something interesting you're very familiar with at first. The behavior of your kids, or your crops, or your business successes or failures, the moods of your friends or enemies, how ideas percolate in the lab, the last great or horrid party you threw, etc. Where you see exponential quickening (when innocent beginnings suddenly take off, or fall completely flat, etc.) try to document *everything* connected that was happening. Find the flow & the inflection points.
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