Claude Shannon used this 6-step process to solve any problem

These recent articles about Shannon should be the most helpful relating to the very uncommon natural-born researcher.

Effectively implementing Shannon's guidelines as documented here can be really helpful, but still can not be expected to bring the majority of aspiring researchers within reach of such unlimited upside potential, even from adjoining labs having the same resources where valuable breakthroughs are being had by all.

Anyway, I'll put in my 2 cents about what I interpret for Shannon's missing text in the following paragraph:

>Then there’s the idea of dissatisfaction. By this I don’t mean a pessimistic dissatisfaction of the world - we don’t like the way things are - I mean a constructive dissatisfaction. The idea could be expressed in the words, °∞ (missing?). This is OK, but I think things could be done better. I think there is a neater way to do this. I think things could be improved a little. In other words, there is continually a slight irritation when things don’t look quite right; and I think that dissatisfaction in present days is a key driving force in good scientists.

I say the idea could be expressed in the words "continuous improvement"