From the course: Building Creative Thinking from the Brain Up
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Shift your perspective for more creative problem-solving
From the course: Building Creative Thinking from the Brain Up
Shift your perspective for more creative problem-solving
- GenAI tools can help us in the idea generation phase of creativity, but is there a tool that can jumpstart the path to illumination, help us activate the mind wandering or default mode network in a way that's more productive for creative thinking? If we let our minds wander aimlessly, often we ruminate on what's troubling us, sending us down an anxious spiral. When our thoughts are dominated by our hopes or fears, our minds wander close to home in a sense, along the well-worn paths of our habitual thoughts, rather than to the more remote recesses of our brains where hidden gems of creative ideas might be found. Many of us think that the only effective way to pull us out of aimless mind wandering is through logical or rational thinking, the kind that relies on formal rules to evaluate evidence objectively and converge on an inevitable conclusion. And we assume that that's the only sure way to find a good solution to a problem. We dismiss stories or emotionally driven thinking as…