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7 Ways to Learn from Your Negative Thoughts
Channel your inner toddler
Question everything. Ask yourself what you might be assuming.
Dig deeply, and look at every facet of that assumption. It might be helpful to type or write this out.
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The Better Mind Map
Combining the Mind Map Technique with the Creativity Triggers Technique.
The novelty of The Better Mind Map is in the custom triggers tailored to a specific challenge. It is a template that provides structure for your early thinking and customizable to suit your purposes.
How The Better Mind Map works
- Write your design challenge or problem in the center of a blank piece of paper and circle it.
- Add the following five Topic Areas around the central challenge: User needs, Inspiration, Constraints, Commercial drivers, Service design triggers.
- In the Service design triggers Area, Pick 3 triggers from Entertainment, Simplified/light, Adaptable, Economical, Integrated, Durable.
- Consolidate what you know about each topic area into 3 triggers each.
Sketching ideas
- Divide a piece of paper into six sections.
- Dedicate each section to a sketched idea, based on a single trigger from your Better Mind Map
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Getting Through the Hard Stuff with Journaling
- Journaling is the act of processing the past (and even the future) in the here and now.
- Writing is and of itself **cathartic.
- Feelings and experiences become **less overwhelming.
- Reading back helps reveal patterns.
- You can use creative journaling to change your story.
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Over-thinking doesn't lead to insight
You want an understanding of which decision will be best. For this, you need a level of insight into what each decision will lead to. Thinking this through, however, is futile.
Acting, therefore, leads to clarity. Thought doesn’t. Why? Because you never, ever know what something will be like until you experience it.
Your decision will never be final
You must be aware that however much critical thinking you apply to a decision, you may be wrong.
Being comfortable with being wrong, and knowing that your opinions and knowledge of a situation will change with time, brings a sense of true inner freedom and peace.
Why over-thinking is harmful
Studies have shown rumination to be strongly linked to depression, anxiety, binge eating, binge drinking, and self-harm.