Si Charles Darwin ay may isa sa pinakadakilang "aha!" mga sandali sa buong kasaysayan nang isulat ang kanyang magnum opus na On The Origin of Species . Matapos basahin ang isang librong isinulat 40 taon na ang nakalilipas tungkol sa paglaki ng populasyon at kumpetisyon sa mapagkukunan, agad na nakita ni Darwin ang koneksyon sa pagkakaiba-iba ng mga species na naobserbahan niya sa Galapagos -- at voila , ipinanganak ang teorya ng natural selection.
"Binasa ni Darwin ang librong ito at sinabing, 'Wow, ayan na!' Iyon ay halimbawa ng 'aha!' ng pagkuha ng bagong piraso ng impormasyon, at makita ang implikasyon at makita kung paano ito akma," sabi ng cognitive psychologist na si Gary Klein, may-akda ng Seeing What Others Don't: The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights , ay nagsasabi sa The Huffington Post. "Iyon ay isang hindi inaasahang pagbabago sa kanyang pang-unawa."
Ang mga epiphanies at flash na ito ng biglaang kalinawan ay kadalasang dumarating sa mga hindi inaasahang sandali. Kaya mayroon ba tayong anumang kontrol sa mga insight na ito, at mayroon bang paraan upang sanayin ang utak upang maging mas nakaayon sa mga ito? Maaaring hindi inaasahan ang mga insight, ngunit maaari talaga nating turuan ang ating sarili na makita ang mga koneksyon na maaaring hindi mapansin ng iba.
"Ang isang insight ay isang hindi inaasahang pagbabago sa paraan ng pag-unawa natin sa mga bagay," sabi ni Klein. "It comes without warning. It's not something that we think is going to happen and that's why it's unexpected. It feels like a gift and in fact it is."
Narito ang limang bagay na dapat mong malaman tungkol sa insight -- at mga paraan upang magdala ng higit pang "aha!" sandali sa iyong buhay.
Maging mausisa.
Ang pagiging mausisa ay ang pinakamahusay na paraan upang maging mas insightful, sabi ni Klein, at ang kakulangan ng insight ay kadalasang nagmumula sa pagiging passive at walang interes na estado ng pag-iisip.
"Ang pag-usisa ay isa pang makina ng pananaw," sabi ni Klein. "Ang mga taong nakakakuha ng mga insight ay nakakakita ng isang bagay na medyo mali, at sa halip na balewalain ito, gusto nilang malaman ito.
Hayaang gumala ang iyong isip.
Nalaman ng isang sikolohikal na pag-aaral noong 2012 na ang daydreaming -- passive bagaman ito ay tila -- aktwal na nagsasangkot ng isang napaka-aktibong estado ng utak, kung kaya't ang gumagala-gala na isip ay minsan ay natitisod sa mga makikinang na insight at biglaang mga koneksyon. Pinaniniwalaan ng mga mananaliksik ang hindi pangkaraniwang bagay na ito sa katotohanan na ang daydreaming ay nauugnay sa ating kakayahang mag-alala ng impormasyon sa harap ng mga pagkagambala. Natuklasan din ng kamakailang pananaliksik sa neuroscience na ang daydreaming ay nagsasangkot ng parehong mga proseso ng utak na kasangkot sa imahinasyon at pagkamalikhain.
"Nag-aalala ako tungkol sa mga taong gumugugol ng lahat ng kanilang walang laman na oras kapag wala sila sa mga pag-uusap na nakikinig sa musika o mga podcast o mga bagay na tulad nito, at hindi nag-iiwan ng anumang puwang upang mangarap lang ng gising," sabi ni Klein.
Bigyang-pansin ang mga pagkakataon.
"Maging mas alerto sa mga anomalya," sabi ni Klein, "sa halip na mabilis na ipaliwanag ang mga ito at manatili sa iyong comfort zone."
Madalas nating balewalain ang mga coincidence o hindi masyadong iniisip ang mga ito, dahil madalas silang walang kahulugan, sabi ni Klein. Ngunit ang paghahanap ng mga pagkakataon ay isang mahusay na paraan upang makagawa ng mga nakakagulat na koneksyon.
"May isang paniniwala na ang ugnayan ay hindi nagpapahiwatig ng sanhi, na totoo. Nakikita ng mga tao ang lahat ng uri ng mga ugnayan sa magkakatulad na lumalabas na hindi totoo, kaya nakakakuha sila ng masamang reputasyon," sabi ni Klein. "Ngunit sa aking trabaho nalaman ko na maraming mga insight ang pinapakain ng mga taong nakakakita ng mga coincidences at paggawa ng mga pagpapalagay, at sa halip na sabihin lang 'Ito ay dapat totoo,' na ginagawa sa follow-up na trabaho upang malaman kung ito ay totoo."
Tingnang mabuti ang mga kontradiksyon.
Maaaring mangyari ang mga insight kapag nakatagpo tayo ng mga ideyang hindi makatuwiran sa atin.
Ang pagtatanong sa mga kontradiksyon ay isa pang landas sa mga epiphanies. Bagama't ang pag-usisa ay nakapagtataka sa atin, ang kontradiksyon ay nagdudulot sa atin ng pagdududa -- at maaari itong maging isa pang makapangyarihang paraan upang makakuha ng mga insight.
"Ang aming tendency kapag naabot namin ang isang kontradiksyon na nagsasangkot ng mga bagay na pinaniniwalaan namin na naiintindihan namin nang mabuti ay ang sabihin, 'Well, iyon ay dapat na isang anomalya.' Mayroon kaming isang kahanga-hangang hanay ng mga diskarte para sa pagpapaliwanag ng mga hindi maginhawang katotohanan," sabi ni Klein. "Ang kontradiksyon ay humahantong lamang sa isang pananaw kapag sineseryoso ito ng mga tao upang tuklasin ito nang kaunti."
Kumilos ayon sa iyong mga insight.
Ang daydreaming ay hindi lamang ang estado ng pag-iisip na maaaring humantong sa mga insight.
"Nakahanap ako ng ilang mga halimbawa kung saan ang mga tao ay nasa ilalim ng matinding pressure at nakaisip ng mga kahanga-hangang pananaw," sabi ni Klein. "Dapat nating yakapin ang pangangailangan ng madaliang pagkilos."
Pinipilit ng pagkaapurahan na ito ang mga tao na tingnan ang mga bagay na hindi nila binabalewala (kung ano ang tinutukoy ni Klein bilang "malikhaing desperasyon"), at kapag nakakuha sila ng insight, hinihikayat silang kumilos kaagad. Ito ay madalas kung paano sinusubukan ng mga grand master ng chess ang isang hindi pangkaraniwang hakbang na nagtatapos sa pagiging matagumpay at panalo sa laro para sa kanila.
"Ang problema sa napakaraming organisasyon ay hindi sila nakakaramdam ng anumang pressure na kumilos sa mga insight na mayroon sila," sabi ni Klein. "Kumilos sila na parang mayroon silang lahat ng oras sa mundo at pagkatapos ay mawawalan sila ng negosyo."
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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.