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Rigid Thinking
The speed of technological and cultural development is requiring us to embrace types of thinking besides the rational, logical style of analysis that tends to be emphasized in our society.
The less rigid we are in our thinking, the more open-minded, creative and innovative we become.
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Elastic Thinking
It is the capacity to be flexible, to embrace ambiguity, contradiction, and unconventional mindsets.
It is the ability to abandon our 'marriage' to our beliefs and assumptions, opening ourselves to new paradigms.
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Explore The New
Elastic thinking is the way to cutting edge innovation, future visions, science fiction gems, and other great new ideas.
Our tendency to explore and learn has always created something new in the world.
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Frozen thinking
It occurs when you have a fixed orientation to approach a problem.
Many experts are frozen thinkers and cannot see beyond their mastered fields, often leading to embarrassing results.
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Develop Elastic Thinking
- Develop a 'little kid's eye' to see and question situations.
- Go and seek what challenges your beliefs.
- Recognize diversity.
- Generate lots of ideas and don’t be bothered that they will mostly be bad eggs.
- Develop positivity.
- Don't be overly analytical.
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"I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it." -Frank Howard Clark
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Logical Thinking
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Escape the constraints of the logical mind by thinking metaphorically. Metaphors work because they help you see...
Counterfactual Thinking
There are two types of counterfactual thinking: upward and downward counterfactual thinking.
- Upward counterfactual thinking: it happens whenever we look back at a scenario and ask the "what if" questions in terms of how our life coul...
Critical Thinking
WE MUST ASSERT RATIONAL CONTROL OF OUR BELIEFS AND CONCLUSIONS. THE ALTERNATIVE IS BEING THE MENTAL SLAVE OF THE LAST PERSON WE ENCOUNTERED.
Critical thinking teaches you skills and attitudes that make you proud to have rationally discovered answers that make sense to you....
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