Mind Habits
Creative Problem Solving Course
For effectively using your mind, habits make all the difference.
Here's your first lesson, and an overview of the course. To
become a creative problem solving master, you need to learn what
to do, and then make those actions and thought-patterns into
habits. The lessons:
1. Train Your Mind.
2. Increase Your Brainpower.
3. Learn To Concentrate.
4. Develop Your Intuition.
5. Develop Your Creativity.
6. Put It All Together.
Training Your Mind To Solve Problems
Have you ever wondered why it's easy to negotiate a 3,000-pound
car through traffic at 60 mph, but difficult to balance a checking
account or find time to do something important? (Insert your
own examples if these don't work for you.) It's probably due
to your habits of mind.
It isn't actually easy to drive in traffic the first time.
It takes all of your concentration. But by automating the actions
- training your mind and body, you eventually can drive comfortably
in freeway traffic, even while arguing with a talk show host
on the radio (try doing that the first time you drive). Your
habits have made you more efficient.
If you want to creatively solve problems, then, start by cultivating
good habits. For example, pick a problem-solving technique, such
as "assumption challenging," and use it for three weeks
or so. If you don't have problems to solve every day (lucky you),
make them up. Do this until your mind automatically applies the
technique to problems as they arise.
Now imagine you are looking for a new chair design for restaurant
seating. Your mind, now trained, immediately starts challenging
assumptions. Are chair legs necessary? If the seats were
extended from the wall, table, or ceiling, it would be easier
to clean under them. Are chairs necessary? Has anyone tried a
stand-up cafe? Less space is required.
Do you see how creating good habits of mind can save you time
and mind-strain later?
Another example: What if every time your mind struggled
with a problem, you unconsciously sat up straight and took a
deep breath? These actions have been shown to improve brain function.
Conscious discipline is required at first to train the mind,
but the eventual result is greater brain power for less effort.
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