10 ways to generate better ideas using Elastic Thinking
Elastic thinking is the ability to solve novel problems and overcome the neural and psychological barriers that can impede us from looking beyond the existing order.
I finished reading the book, Elastic: Unlocking Your Brain's Ability to Embrace Change by Leonard Mlodinow. Great book on mechanics of elastic or divergent thinking key to fruitful idea generation. List are ten takeaways
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1. Thinking broadly versus analytical and focused when generating ideas
2. Mindfulness: a Relaxed mind is conducive to idea generation
3. Bad mood discourages idea generation
4. Sit in an open environment and areas to encourage ideation
5. Closing your eyes or dark room can increase elastic thinking
6. Fatigue and exhaustion can induce idea generation
7. Generate a lot of ideas to find the good ones
8. Generate ideas when you have no time pressure or distractions
9. Reframing is a great way to generate ideas, which means tossing out old frameworks and adoption a new point of view
10. Extrinsic reward for an intrinsically enjoyable behaviour can be counterproductive to Elastic thinking
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