Charles Darwin je imao jedan od najvećih "aha!" trenutke u cijeloj povijesti kada piše svoj magnum opus O podrijetlu vrsta . Nakon što je pročitao knjigu napisanu prije 40 godina o rastu populacije i konkurenciji resursa, Darwin je odmah uočio vezu s varijacijama među vrstama koje je promatrao na Galapagosu - i voila , rođena je teorija prirodne selekcije.
"Darwin čita ovu knjigu i kaže: 'Vau, to je to!' To je primjer 'aha!' dobivanja nove informacije, uvida implikacije i kako se uklapaju", kaže za The Huffington Post kognitivni psiholog Gary Klein, autor knjige Seeing What Others Don't: The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights . "To je bila neočekivana promjena u njegovom razumijevanju."
Ove epifanije i bljeskovi iznenadne jasnoće obično se javljaju u najneočekivanijim trenucima. Dakle, imamo li ikakvu kontrolu nad tim uvidima i postoji li način da treniramo mozak da im se bolje prilagodi? Uvidi mogu biti neočekivani, ali zapravo se možemo naučiti vidjeti veze koje drugi možda nikada neće primijetiti.
"Uvid je neočekivana promjena u načinu na koji razumijemo stvari", kaže Klein. "Dolazi bez upozorenja. To nije nešto što mislimo da će se dogoditi i zato je neočekivano. Čini se kao dar, a zapravo i jest."
Evo pet stvari koje biste trebali znati o uvidu -- i načinima da donesete više "aha!" trenutaka u vašem životu.
Budite znatiželjni.
Biti znatiželjan je najbolji način da postanete pronicljiviji, kaže Klein, a nedostatak uvida često dolazi iz pasivnog i nezainteresiranog stanja uma.
"Radoznalost je još jedan pokretač uvida", kaže Klein. "Ljudi koji dobiju uvide vide nešto što je pomalo pogrešno i umjesto da to ignoriraju, zanima ih to. Znatiželja drži naš um angažiranim da razradimo implikacije."
Neka vam misli odlutaju.
Psihološka studija iz 2012. otkrila je da sanjarenje - koliko god se pasivno činilo - zapravo uključuje vrlo aktivno stanje mozga, zbog čega lutajući um ponekad može naići na briljantne uvide i iznenadne veze. Istraživači ovaj fenomen pripisuju činjenici da je sanjarenje povezano s našom sposobnošću da se prisjetimo informacija usprkos ometanjima. Nedavna neuroznanstvena istraživanja također su otkrila da sanjarenje uključuje iste moždane procese koji su uključeni u maštu i kreativnost.
"Brinem se za ljude koji sve svoje prazno vrijeme kada nisu u razgovoru provode slušajući glazbu ili podcaste ili slične stvari, a ne ostavljaju prostora samo za sanjarenje", kaže Klein.
Obratite pozornost na slučajnosti.
"Budite pozorniji na anomalije," kaže Klein, "umjesto da ih brzo objašnjavate i ostanete u svojoj zoni udobnosti."
Skloni smo ignorirati slučajnosti ili ne razmišljati o njima, jer su često besmislene, kaže Klein. Ali traženje slučajnosti moćan je način stvaranja iznenađujućih veza.
"Postoji uvjerenje da korelacija ne implicira uzročnost, što je istina. Ljudi vide sve vrste korelacija u podudarnostima koje se pokažu lažnima, pa dolaze na loš glas", kaže Klein. "Ali u svom radu nalazim da se puno uvida hrani tako što ljudi uočavaju slučajnosti i stvaraju pretpostavke, i umjesto da samo kažu 'Mora biti istina', rade na naknadnom radu kako bi otkrili je li istina."
Pažljivo promotrite kontradikcije.
Uvidi se mogu pojaviti kada naiđemo na ideje koje nam nemaju smisla.
Preispitivanje proturječnosti još je jedan put do epifanije. Dok nas radoznalost tjera da se zapitamo, kontradiktornost nas tjera da sumnjamo -- i to može biti još jedan moćan način za dobivanje uvida.
"Naša tendencija je da kad naiđemo na kontradikciju koja uključuje stvari za koje vjerujemo da ih dobro razumijemo kažemo: 'Pa, to mora biti anomalija.' Imamo sjajan skup tehnika za objašnjavanje nezgodnih činjenica", kaže Klein. "Proturječnost vodi do uvida samo kada je ljudi shvate dovoljno ozbiljno da je malo istraže."
Djelujte prema svojim uvidima.
Sanjarenje nije jedino stanje uma koje može dovesti do uvida.
"Pronašao sam brojne primjere u kojima su ljudi bili pod ogromnim pritiskom i došli do čudesnih uvida", kaže Klein. "Trebali bismo prihvatiti hitnost."
Ova hitnost tjera ljude da gledaju na stvari koje bi inače zanemarili (ono što Klein naziva "kreativnim očajem"), a kada steknu uvid, potiče ih da odmah djeluju. Ovo je često način na koji šahovski velemajstori iskušavaju neobičan potez koji na kraju bude uspješan i dobije partiju za njih.
"Problem s previše organizacija je taj što ne osjećaju nikakav pritisak da djeluju na temelju uvida koje su imali", kaže Klein. "Ponašaju se kao da imaju sve vrijeme ovoga svijeta i onda na kraju propadnu."
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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.