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Multi-tasking makes us less efficient and productive because our brains don’t have the capacity to process everything at once – we can only focus on one thing at a time.
We can switch attention from one task to another, but when attention is overloaded we miss things and take longer to complete activities.
Read MoreIn our hectic, busy schedules we often miss the gap or fail to make the small spaces in between activities for our thoughts to percolate and settle. But this is incredibly important.
It’s often in the small gaps where ideas can develop, different solutions can evolve and our brains can find the space to whirl away on a problem in the background.
Read MoreLook for new ideas to emulate, combine and adapt to your own situation. Good imitators go far and wide in search for fresh inspiration from diverse reference points and areas of life they don’t usually experience.
Read MoreWhen faced with lots of information or data, it may seem most efficient to categorise into groups and filter out the anomalies, but it can be incredibly insightful to focus on what doesn’t fit.
What’s the odd one out? What isn’t behaving as you’d expect?
Read MoreThe term sceptic is derived from the Greek skeptikos, meaning “to inquire” or “look around”. Being sceptical is very different from being cynical. If being cynical is about distrusting information, particularly when it challenges existing beliefs or holding views that cannot easily be changed by contrary evidence, then being sceptical is about looking for additional evidence before accepting someone’s claims as true.
Read MoreAristotle, Einstein and Salvador Dali all made use of the 'micro-nap'; the tiniest of moments between being awake and asleep.
Dali would sit in his armchair with a key in his hand hovering above a plate and doze off. The idea was that just before falling into deep sleep, the key would fall and loudly land on the plate and he would wake with a sudden jolt of inspiration*.
Read MoreTry drawing from your past experiences, hobbies or interests or looking for inspiration in completely new areas of life. This simple question is a great way to open your mind to think about your challenges in new ways.
Read MoreDo you ever collide together what you know from completely different areas of your life to see new connections, similarities and opportunities? It's sometimes called the 'polymath mindset'*, this is all about synthesising and combining apparently disparate ideas together in new ways to create novel solutions.
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