{"id":4589,"date":"2014-04-14T23:06:48","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T20:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seragpsych.com\/wordpress\/?p=4589"},"modified":"2014-06-24T18:37:33","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T15:37:33","slug":"think-like-einstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seragpsych.com\/wordpress\/think-like-einstein\/","title":{"rendered":"THINK LIKE EINSTEIN"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><\/h2>\n<p>How do geniuses come up with ideas? What links the thinking style that produced<br \/>\nMona Lisa with the one that spawned the theory of relativity? What can we learn<br \/>\nfrom the thinking strategies of the Galileos, Edisons, and Mozarts of history?<\/p>\n<p>By studying the notebooks, correspondence, and conversations of some of the world\u2019s<br \/>\ngreat thinkers in science, art, and industry, scholars have identified the following<br \/>\nthinking strategies that enable geniuses to generate original ideas:<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>1. Geniuses look at problems from all angles. Sigmund Freud\u2019s analytical<br \/>\nmethods were designed to find details that didn\u2019t fit traditional paradigms in order<br \/>\nto come up with a completely new point of view. To solve a problem creatively,<br \/>\nyou must abandon the first approach that comes to mind, which usually stems<br \/>\nfrom past experience, and reconceptualize the problems. Geniuses do not merely<br \/>\nsolve existing problems; they identify new ones.<\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>2. Geniuses make their thought visible. Geniuses developing visual and spatial<br \/>\nabilities that allowed them to display information in the Renaissance was tied to<br \/>\nthe development of graphic illustration during that period, notably the scientific<br \/>\ndiagrams of Leonardo da Vinci and Galilei Galileo revolutionized science by<br \/>\nmaking his thought graphically visible while his contemporaries used more<br \/>\nconventional means.<\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>3. Geniuses produce. Thomas Edison held 1,093 patents, still a record. He<br \/>\nguaranteed a high level of productivity by giving himself idea quotas: one minor<br \/>\ninvention every 10 days and a major invention every six months. Johann<br \/>\nSebastian Bach wrote a cantata every week, even when he was sick or exhausted.<br \/>\nWolfgang Mozart produced more than 600 pieces of music.<\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>4. Geniuses make novel combinations. Like playful children with buckets of<br \/>\nbuilding blocks, geniuses constantly combine and recombine ideas, images, and<br \/>\nthoughts. The laws of heredity were developed by Gregor Mendel, who<br \/>\ncombined mathematics and biology to create a new science of genetics.<\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>\n5. Geniuses force relationships. Their facility to connect the unconnected enables<br \/>\ngeniuses to see things others miss. Da Vinci noticed the similarity between the<br \/>\nsound of a bell and a stone hitting water-and concluded that sound travels in<br \/>\nwaves.<\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>6. Geniuses prepare themselves for chance. Whenever we attempt to do something<br \/>\nand fail, we end up doing something else. That\u2019s the first principle of creative<br \/>\naccident. We may ask ourselves why we have failed to do what we intended,<br \/>\nwhich is a reasonable question. But the creative accident leads to the question:<br \/>\nWhat have we done? Answering that one in a novel, unexpected way is the<br \/>\nessential creative act. It is not luck, but creative insight of the highest order.<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do geniuses come up with ideas? What links the thinking style that produced Mona Lisa with the one that spawned the theory of relativity? What can we learn from the thinking strategies of the Galileos, Edisons, and Mozarts of history? 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