From the course: Your Brain at Work (Blinkist Summary)

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Overcome mental blocks using insight

Overcome mental blocks using insight

From the course: Your Brain at Work (Blinkist Summary)

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Overcome mental blocks using insight

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- Blink number four. Insights, make it possible to overcome mental blocks that limit you to the same small set of solutions. Have you ever had to deal with a challenging problem that demanded a creative solution, but were simply unable to get past a certain point? It's very common for people to hit a wall in their thinking to reach, in other words, a mental impasse. Often the only way to break through this wall is through insight, a perfect solution that seems to suddenly appear out of nowhere and which recombines what we already know in a brand new way. And the findings of studies support this view. We do not arrive at insights by logical reasoning, but rather we simply and suddenly find ourselves on the other side of the impasse. How we solve certain word puzzles demonstrates this process, say you're presented with a series of words and asked to come up with one word that connects the others. For instance, pine, crab and…

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