How to think better—10 tips

 

1. Take note of your emotions. Our consciousness is only a small part of what goes on in our head. Any time the brain processes with great speed a huge amount of information very quickly to realize we can't. Based on their findings, the brain generates emotions. Do not ignore this subtle hint – your personal supercomputer wants you to say something.

2. Do not think under the pressure of circumstances. In the moments when you just need action, it makes no sense to analyze their methods. "The plane took off – too late to check the fuel reserves". Once spent the time learning the skill (it always takes time), we further have to trust your automatism, and to perform actions quickly and effectively.

 

3. Consider the alternative. This method is often used by poker players when I suspect that the partner is bluffing. Let's assume for ourselves the idea that "the partner is not bluffing", then the brain is sensitive to filter all the signs (speech, facial expressions), which are in conflict with this fact taken us for granted.

 

4. Question your habits. If you like good wine – there is no connection between price and how much it would please you personally. Same with perfumes, movies, books... find Out what you personally want, and get more enjoyment from life.

 

5. Take a long shower. Studies show that often the problem comes during long walks or standing under the shower. These ideas received at the peak of activity of the right hemisphere of the brain, and the mind most effectively work with this hemisphere when it is stress-free.

 

6. Skeptical take his memories. Scientists have proven that human memory is amazingly dishonest. The fact of the memories of the event changes the information about this event in our brain – changing details and descriptions. The more you think, the less reliable become of these events as the basis for decision-making. It is unlikely that you should to arrange the birthday of their child on the basis of memories, what you most liked in 7 years.

 

7. Count on a perfect figure and supermachine at the same time. It turned out that the area of the brain responsible for will and thinking are being rapidly depleted. A simple experiment showed that people asked to remember a seven-digit number and then offered to eat between the salad and chocolate cake chose the cake. And the one who asked you to remember only one number, without hesitation chose the salad. In the first group of "brain strain" has been exhausted. Remember, you can do everything, just not all at once!

 

8. Work on the bugs. One common trait of successful people is their desire to focus on their mistakes. Even when they do well, they insist that could do better. It's certainly not a recipe for happiness, but it is vital the learning process, since brain cells figure out how to do the right thing by analyzing where they went wrong.

 

9. Go and dream. Forget about efficiency. Scientists have discovered that dreams are an important component of creativity: they cause the peak of activity in the network of the brain that connects its parts and forms new connections. The dreamer in reality does a great job.

 

10. Think about the thinking. It is proved that the main guarantee of the correct decision is not the intellect, the experience and determination to find a solution. The brain as a Swiss army knife, full of all sorts of instruments. Think about which of these tools is most suitable to solve the problem now.

 

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