Dave Pollard writes an article Twelve Ways to Think Differently.
The Idea: Twelve methods that will exercise parts of your brain that rarely get it, and make you more creative and better able to understand the world.
The 12 methods that he points out are:
- Meditation
- Reconnect With Your Senses
- Reconnect With Your Intuition
- Analogies and Metaphors
- Conversations and Interviews
- Synthesis, Distillation and Restatement
- Reading (and Writing) Fiction
- Psychoactive and Other Drugs (not recommended for health reasons)
- Learning a New Language
- Learning Something Outside Your Comfort Zone
- Do Impulsive and Serendipitous Things
- Collaboration
It's worth the read, over on his How to Save the World blog. Please be advised that these 12 points are his own ideas, not recommended, especially point #8! All others seem like very good ideas to exercise your brain and to create new neural connections.
Dave Pollard writes an article Twelve Ways to Think Differently.
The Idea: Twelve methods that will exercise parts of your brain that rarely get it, and make you more creative and better able to understand the world.
The 12 methods that he points out are:
It's worth the read, over on his How to Save the World blog. Please be advised that these 12 points are his own ideas, not recommended, especially point #8! All others seem like very good ideas to exercise your brain and to create new neural connections.