Charles Darwinil oli üks suurimaid "ahaa!" hetked kogu ajaloos, kui kirjutas oma magnum oopuse "Liikide päritolust" . Lugenud 40 aastat varem kirjutatud raamatut rahvastiku kasvu ja ressursside konkurentsi kohta, nägi Darwin kohe seost Galapagose saartel täheldatud liikide varieerumisega – ja voilaa , sündiski loodusliku valiku teooria.
"Darwin loeb seda raamatut ja ütleb: "Vau, see on kõik!" See on näide "ahaa!" uue teabe hankimise ja selle tähenduse nägemise ja selle sobivuse nägemise,“ räägib kognitiivpsühholoog Gary Klein, raamatu „Seeing What Others Don't: The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights“ autor The Huffington Postile. "See oli ootamatu nihe tema arusaamises."
Need epifaaniad ja äkilise selguse sähvatused kipuvad tulema kõige ootamatumatel hetkedel. Nii et kas meil on nende arusaamade üle üldse kontroll ja kas on võimalik aju treenida, et nendega paremini kohaneda? Arusaamad võivad olla ootamatud, kuid tegelikult saame end õpetada nägema seoseid, mida teised ei pruugi kunagi märgata.
"Arusaamine on ootamatu muutus selles, kuidas me asjadest aru saame," ütleb Klein. "See tuleb ette hoiatamata. See ei ole midagi, mida me arvame juhtuvat ja seetõttu on see ootamatu. See tundub kingitusena ja tegelikult nii ongi."
Siin on viis asja, mida peaksite arusaamise kohta teadma – ja viise, kuidas tuua rohkem "aha!" hetked sinu ellu.
Ole uudishimulik.
Klein ütleb, et uudishimulik olemine on parim viis läbinägelikuks muutumiseks ja arusaamise puudumine tuleneb sageli passiivsest ja huvitamatust meeleseisundist.
"Uudishimu on veel üks arusaamise mootor," ütleb Klein. "Inimesed, kes saavad teadmisi, näevad midagi, mis on veidi kõrvalekalduv, ja selle asemel, et seda ignoreerida, tunnevad nad selle vastu uudishimu. Uudishimu hoiab meie mõtted kaasatud tagajärgede väljatöötamisse."
Lase oma mõtetel rännata.
2012. aastal läbi viidud psühholoogiline uuring näitas, et unistamine – kuigi passiivne see võib tunduda – hõlmab tegelikult väga aktiivset ajuseisundit, mistõttu võib uitav meel mõnikord komistada hiilgavatele arusaamadele ja äkilistele seostele. Teadlased omistavad selle nähtuse tõsiasjale, et unenägude nägemine on korrelatsioonis meie võimega meelde tuletada teavet tähelepanu kõrvalejuhtimise korral. Hiljutised neuroteaduse uuringud on samuti leidnud, et unistamine hõlmab samu ajuprotsesse, mis on seotud kujutlusvõime ja loovusega.
"Ma muretsen inimeste pärast, kes veedavad kogu oma tühja aja, kui nad ei kuula vestlust muusikat, taskuhäälingusaateid ega muud taolist ega jäta ruumi lihtsalt unistamiseks," ütleb Klein.
Pöörake tähelepanu kokkusattumusele.
"Olge kõrvalekallete suhtes valvsam," ütleb Klein, "selle asemel, et neid kiiresti lahti seletada ja oma mugavustsooni jääda."
Klein ütleb, et me kipume kokkusattumusi ignoreerima või neist palju ei arva, sest need on sageli mõttetud. Kuid kokkusattumuste otsimine on võimas viis üllatavate seoste loomiseks.
"Arvatakse, et korrelatsioon ei tähenda põhjuslikku seost, mis on tõsi. Inimesed näevad kokkulangevustes igasuguseid seoseid, mis osutuvad võltsiks, nii et nad saavad halva maine," ütleb Klein. "Kuid oma töös avastan, et paljud arusaamad toidavad inimesi, kes märkavad kokkusattumusi ja teevad oletusi ning selle asemel, et öelda "See peab olema tõsi", teevad järeltööd, et teada saada, kas see on tõsi."
Vaadake tähelepanelikult vastuolusid.
Arusaamine võib ilmneda siis, kui kohtame ideid, mis pole meie jaoks mõistlikud.
Vastuolude kahtluse alla seadmine on teine tee epifaaniatesse. Kui uudishimu paneb meid imestama, siis vasturääkivus paneb meid kahtlema – ja see võib olla veel üks võimas viis arusaamade saamiseks.
"Meie kalduvus, kui tabame vastuolu, mis hõlmab asju, millest me usume, et mõistame hästi, on öelda:" Noh, see peab olema anomaalia. Meil on suurepärane tehnikate komplekt ebamugavate faktide selgitamiseks, " ütleb Klein. "Vastuolu viib arusaamiseni ainult siis, kui inimesed võtavad seda piisavalt tõsiselt, et seda natuke uurida."
Tegutsege oma arusaamade järgi.
Unistamine ei ole ainus meeleseisund, mis võib viia arusaamadeni.
"Olen leidnud mitmeid näiteid, kus inimesed olid tohutu surve all ja said suurepäraseid teadmisi," ütleb Klein. "Me peaksime omaks võtma kiireloomulisuse."
See kiireloomulisus sunnib inimesi vaatama asju, mida nad muidu ignoreeriksid (mida Klein nimetab "loominguliseks meeleheiteks"), ja kui nad saavad sellest ülevaate, julgustab neid kohe selle järgi tegutsema. Nii proovivad male suurmeistrid sageli ebatavalist käiku, mis lõppeb edukaga ja võidab mängu.
"Liiga paljude organisatsioonide probleem seisneb selles, et nad ei tunne mingit survet oma teadmiste põhjal tegutseda," ütleb Klein. "Nad käituvad nii, nagu neil oleks kogu aeg maailmas, ja siis lõpetavad nad äritegevuse."
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In my line of work I have to look for the bad things people do,hier I am reminded that people are actually good circumstance make them sometimes do bad things!
DailyGood helps me to be creative, innovative and stimulus to my thought process.
Be curious and Act on your insights have helped me a lot in my work-teaching
and interacting with people.
Travel extensively,speak to different kinds of people in distress,then we will be able to overcome many obstacles.
As a patient and student of deep psychotherapy it is my opinion that before it is possible to gain true value from these tips, before a brain can be trained to see the things others miss, a person must first become wholly aware of themselves, their part in the world and relationships, their impact on people and things around them. I believe that if you are not wholly aware of yourself you will always see the world through a filter.
In your article: "Train Your Brain To See What Others Don't See" you give the advises:
"Be curious, - Let your mind wander, - Pay attention to coincidences, - Look closely at contradictions, - Act on your insights."
I have some doubts that there are people who can follow this realizing and practicing what you say, in their daily life. From my experience with people over the last eighty years, I must say, that when people are told this, then it might be like saying to a person who has been blind all ones life: "Open your eyes and see!"
There was a man in humans history, who tried this two thousand years ago. It doesn't seem like he had succeeded, at least not with people in the years after, - up to our days...
So I would suggest, before telling an audience something like this, to find out first the basic condition of those people you are directing your advice and check if they are really capable to realize these advises in their daily life.
[Hide Full Comment]More clear and direct it would be, when you give the title: "How to *grow* within your daily life, so that your *Awareness* can expend in the most effective way, so that you see, what others don't see!" And then you can give practical advises people can easily follow. Then to those few between your audience, who are a step ahead of others and have started to have some doubts about their existence and their surrounding, you could give information about their condition in that they are stuck, telling them, that this is part of their survival need, keeping with what they are identified: Their established mindset, with all concepts, beliefs, knowledge and of course their precious self image. You can tell them, that they are trapped in an illusion and that their established mindset is the result of centuries of misinterpretation and manipulation and so they are trying to live a fake reality. You can tell them, that they are
unconsciously reacting out of their programs received during their life time from all influences. To all this they might not listen, but when you tell them, that all their suffering is the result of the dilemma, that what they want in life because of their programmed expectation and then they can't fulfill this in their daily life, - then they might listen. As every body is suffering more or less. But probably only those will really listen, who have suffered to such an extend, that they are at the end of their possibilities, - after they have used all available tricks to survive... Then you can freely give essential and creative advice, how to get out of this condition, to free oneself from the straitjacket of ones mindset and then indeed *see* what others can't!
By the way: I have been writing about this subject since many years and recently also at Face Book and Answers Yahoo, but nobody is interested. The same as with the place I have created here in the middle of the island Ibiza, in beautiful nature, for a group of people living
together, who might be interested in their *growing*. But now after forty years of struggling to find such people, I'm at the point to give up. People are just interested to be confirmed in their established mindset and not to go beyond this, using their 'brain' to *see*!...
I find another way to increase the mental process of connections is to share ideas out with others, sometimes discussions had just describing a protracted path of thought - what I'm realising over a series of months - can turn into a learning experience just listening to myself and feeding off the other person's thoughts and reactions. links and connections can suddenly appear from new perspectives.
thank you for writing and sharing. This is part of the being mindful as experience leads to seeing the interrelated aspect of everything. Which leads to more need "to share." I find these are strange days for messengers. As old media sources are called out, as trust is evaporating -many are feeling the "what the?" of cognitive dissonance and in the confusion will often "attack said messenger. i am working on ways to turn this from a fight model to a learning model . Any ideas appreciated!
Seeing differently has been a threat to "authority" a hellishly long time. Going forward is exciting, frustrating and full of "ahas" - almost daily these days...so worth it!! However, please, just be prepared. and Please share the insights gained. Our children, everyone's, all species, Life, the whole of consciousness, the whole of possibilities, wants us to show up, evolution depends on it (devolution is EZ) "do, be, do, be, do" (Amit Goswami) The more the merrier, the faster the better.
[Hide Full Comment]Another way is to engage in non-evaluative brainstorming that produces many possible next steps.