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This means that if you engage in ballet or another form of structured dance, doing so mayfacilitate convergent thinking . In other words, it may help you find a single, appropriate answer to a problem. If you need help with divergent thinking (finding multiple answers to a problem), engaging in more improvised types of dance such as hip-hop or tap might just do the trick.
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The winning strategy when playing chess, Sudoku, a Rubikâs Cube, or other brain-boosting games is actually to work the problem backward, not forward. The same strategy can apply to realistic strategic-thinking situations.
To build up your brain muscle and develop new problem-solving techniques, practice some logic puzzles and other games .
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More than any other sleeping or awake state, Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep directly enhances creative processing in the brain. REM sleep helps âstimulate associative networks, allowing the brain to make new and useful associations between unrelated ideasâ and are ânot due to selective memory enhancementsâ such as memory consolidation, which occurs when awake.
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A study of cardiac rehabilitation patients tested verbal fluency after exercising with and without music. Results showed that when they listened to music while working out, participants more than doubled their scores on verbal fluency tests in contrast to when they worked out in silence. According to the studyâs lead author, âThe combination of music and exercise may stimulate and increase cognitive arousal while helping to organize the cognitive output.â
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Youâll be able to quickly record important thoughts, write down personal experiences, make sketches, and explore ideas when you keep an âIdea Journalâ with you at all times. Working out problems by sorting your thoughts on paper and then viewing them more objectively is easier than having all your thoughts stuck in your head (and will provide better problem-solving strategies).
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The powerful combination of body awareness, breathing, and meditation that is required during yoga practice has been shown to significantly raise cognitive test scores. Other results from a University of Illinois study include shorter reaction times, more accuracy, and increased attention.
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The Cheerios Effect is the name physicists have given to the event that happens when the last few cheerios in a bowl always cling to each other. The cause of this occurrence is surface tension.
The takeaway is that when it comes to experiencing tension while trying to solve a problem, cling to those around you. Rely on othersâ experiences and ideas, even those from different career fields. Draw connections. Brainstorm. Work together to get the job done.
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Mind Maps , a visual snapshot of a problem and its possible solutions, can help focus the mind, stimulate the brain, increase the capacity for creative thinking, and generate more ideas for solutions.
Make a Mind Map by drawing your problem as the central idea. Add âmain branchesâ consisting of all the reasons for the problem. Use âsub-branchesâ to explore further details.
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Scientists have shown that by increasing the mental distance between us and our problem, weâll have an increase in creative solutions. This happens because thinking more abstractly helps us form unexpected connections between seemingly unrelated concepts, thus allowing our minds to increase its problem-solving capacity.
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This can be related to our working world when we plan, reason, monitor our actions and problem-solve all at once. Therefore, it may be concluded that when you play soccer or any other fast-moving sport, youâre rewiring your brain to be quicker at thinking, processing, and reacting to problems.
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