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Thinking in opposites
Geniuses can tolerate contradictory ideas, between opposites or two incompatible subjects.
Mixing opposites creates the conditions to discover a new relationship or a new point of view.
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Making your thoughts visible
Galileo Galilei revolutionized science by making his idea visible with diagrams, maps, and drawings. Einstein believed that words and numbers as they are spoken did not play a significant role in his thinking process.
Geniuses seem to develop a skill to display information ...
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Forming unique combinations
Geniuses form more novel combinations than talented people.
They continually combine and recombine ideas, images, and thoughts into different combinations.
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Geniuses produce
One characteristic that stands out in geniuses is immense productivity. Thomas Edison held 1,903 patents. Bach wrote a cantata every week, regardless of sickness. Mozart produced over 600 pieces of music. Einstein published 249 papers.
Out of the vast quant...
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Creative accidents
Whenever we attempt to do something and fail, we end up doing something else.
Instead of asking why we failed to do what we intended, the creative accident asks 'what have we done?' This produces a creative insight of the highest order.
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Thinking metaphorically
- Aristotle believed that the person who could see resemblances between two separate areas of existence and link them was a genius.
- If unlike things are really alike in some ways, perhaps, they are so in others. Underwater construction was made possible by noticing how shi...
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Geniuses and problem solving
Leonardo da Vinci believed you begin by learning how to restructure the problem by looking at it from many different angles.
In order to creatively solve a problem, the thinker should not use the usual approach that is based on past experience. Geniuses use several differen...
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Intelligence is not genius
Genius is not about having an extraordinarily high IQ, or even about being smart. It is not about finishing Mensa exercises in record time or mastering fourteen languages at the age of seven.
Geniuses think productively, not reproductively. They ask "How many different ...
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Connecting the unconnected
Geniuses force relationships that enable them to see things to which others are blind.
Leonardo da Vinci forced the relationship between the sound of a bell and a stone hitting water, to make the connection that sound travels in waves.
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Divergent Thinking
Divergent Thinking is a method of thinking that allows us to consider various solutions to a problem and discover new points of view. It is also known as thinking “outside of the box.”
How to use this: “I was able to do some divergent thinking after journaling this morning....
Stick with it
You can become more curious over time if you make a habit of exploring new subjects.
You will become interested in other related things, understanding there's a relationship between what you know and could know.
Train your lateral thinking
- Create alternatives: More choices create better solutions.
- Question your assumptions.
- Quotas: Generate ten ideas a day. The more you do this, the better you will become at it.
- Analogies: Make conn...
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