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Exercise Your Divergent Thinking Muscle
Divergent Thinking is the mental muscle that is thought to underly creativity. It involves generating multiple solutions or possibilities based on a single data point or idea.
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Primary components of Adaptive Thinking
- Effective planning
- Careful monitoring of progress
- The ability to flexibly shift thinking and behavior to accommodate circumstantial changes.
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Negative Visualization Routine
- Generate a list of potential obstacles or unanticipated setbacks that could occur during the performance.
- Practice visualizing and rehearsing the performance in your mind, and during each practice session, work in one of the obstacles, being sure to visualize how you might ...
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Use Deep Work Sprints
Deep work means performing professional activities in a state of distraction-free concentration that push your cognitive capacities to their limit.
In order to truly improve your ability to focus, you must work at a high enough level that your attentional abilities are genuinely chal...
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Establish a Negative Visualization Routine
Positive visualization exercises are undoubtedly powerful (they solidify and clarify your mental representations of your desired skill, to keep you on track), but there may also be a place for Negative Visualization - visualizing potential obstacles or setback that might arise during a perform...
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Adaptive Thinking
It involves the ability to recognize unexpected situations, quickly consider various possible responses, and decide on the best one.
It means performing well at the highest levels, by having the ability not only to think well but to think flexibly and quickly.
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