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Charles Darwin alikuwa na moja ya "aha" kubwa zaidi! muda mfupi katika historia wakati anaandika opus yake kuu On The Origin of Species . Baada ya kusoma kitabu kilichoandikwa miaka 40 mapema juu ya ukuaji wa idadi ya watu na ushindani wa rasilimali, Darwin aliona mara moja uhusiano na tofauti kati ya viumbe ambavyo alikuwa ameona huko Galapagos - na voila , nadharia ya uteuzi wa asili ilizaliwa.
"Darwin anasoma kitabu hiki na kusema, 'Wow, ndivyo hivyo!' Hiyo ni mfano wa 'aha!' ya kupata habari mpya, na kuona maana na kuona jinsi inavyolingana," mwanasaikolojia wa utambuzi Gary Klein, mwandishi wa Seeing What Others Don't: Njia za Ajabu Tunazopata Maarifa , anaambia The Huffington Post. "Hiyo ilikuwa mabadiliko yasiyotarajiwa katika ufahamu wake."
Epiphanies hizi na mimuliko ya uwazi wa ghafla huwa huja katika nyakati zisizotarajiwa. Kwa hivyo, je, tuna udhibiti wowote juu ya maarifa haya, na je, kuna njia ya kufundisha ubongo kuyafahamu zaidi? Maarifa yanaweza kuwa yasiyotarajiwa, lakini tunaweza kujifundisha wenyewe kuona miunganisho ambayo wengine wanaweza kamwe hawatambui.
"Ufahamu ni mabadiliko yasiyotarajiwa katika jinsi tunavyoelewa mambo," anasema Klein. "Inakuja bila ya onyo. Sio jambo ambalo tunadhani litatokea na ndiyo maana halijatarajiwa. Inahisi kama zawadi na kwa kweli ndivyo ilivyo."
Hapa kuna mambo matano unayopaswa kujua kuhusu ufahamu -- na njia za kuleta "aha!" muda mfupi katika maisha yako.
Kuwa na hamu ya kutaka kujua.
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Kuwa na udadisi ndiyo njia bora ya kuwa na utambuzi zaidi, asema Klein, na ukosefu wa ufahamu mara nyingi huja kutokana na kuwa katika hali ya akili ya kutojali na kutopendezwa.
"Udadisi ni injini nyingine ya ufahamu," anasema Klein. "Watu wanaopata maarifa huona kitu ambacho hakiko mbali kidogo, na badala ya kukipuuza, wanatamani kukihusu. Udadisi huweka akili zetu kushughulika ili kusuluhisha matokeo."
Acha akili yako izunguke.
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Utafiti wa kisaikolojia wa 2012 uligundua kuwa kuota ndoto za mchana -- tu ingawa kunaweza kuonekana -- kwa hakika kunahusisha hali ya ubongo iliyo hai, ndiyo maana akili inayotangatanga wakati mwingine inaweza kujikwaa kwenye maarifa mazuri na miunganisho ya ghafla. Watafiti wanaamini jambo hili kwa ukweli kwamba kuota ndoto za mchana kunahusiana na uwezo wetu wa kukumbuka habari wakati wa usumbufu. Utafiti wa hivi majuzi wa sayansi ya neva pia umegundua kuwa kuota ndoto mchana kunahusisha michakato sawa ya ubongo inayohusika katika mawazo na ubunifu.
"Nina wasiwasi kuhusu watu ambao hutumia wakati wao wote tupu wakati hawako kwenye mazungumzo kusikiliza muziki au podikasti au vitu kama hivyo, na bila kuacha nafasi yoyote ili kuota tu mchana," anasema Klein.
Makini na matukio.
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"Kuwa macho zaidi kuhusu hitilafu," Klein anasema, "badala ya kuzielezea kwa haraka na kukaa katika eneo lako la faraja."
Huwa tunapuuza matukio ya bahati mbaya au kutoyafikiria sana, kwa sababu mara nyingi hayana maana, anasema Klein. Lakini kutafuta kwa bahati mbaya ni njia yenye nguvu ya kufanya miunganisho ya kushangaza.
"Kuna imani kwamba uwiano haumaanishi sababu, ambayo ni kweli. Watu wanaona kila aina ya uwiano katika sanjari ambayo inageuka kuwa ya uwongo, kwa hivyo wanapata sifa mbaya," Klein anasema. "Lakini katika kazi yangu nagundua kuwa maarifa mengi yanalishwa na watu wanaona matukio ya kubahatisha na kufanya mawazo, na badala ya kusema tu 'Lazima iwe kweli,' kufanya kazi ya kufuatilia ili kujua kama ni kweli."
Angalia kwa karibu mikanganyiko.
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Maarifa yanaweza kutokea tunapokumbana na mawazo ambayo hayana maana kwetu.
Kuhoji kinzani ni njia nyingine ya epiphanies. Ingawa udadisi hutufanya tushangae, ukinzani hutufanya tuwe na shaka -- na inaweza kuwa njia nyingine nzuri ya kupata maarifa.
"Tabia yetu tunapopata mkanganyiko unaohusisha mambo tunayoamini tunaelewa vizuri ni kusema, 'Lazima hilo ni jambo lisilo la kawaida.' Tuna seti nzuri ya mbinu za kuelezea ukweli usiofaa, "anasema Klein. "Upinzani huo husababisha tu ufahamu wakati watu wanauchukulia kwa uzito wa kutosha kuuchunguza kidogo."
Tenda kulingana na maarifa yako.
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Ndoto za mchana sio hali pekee ya akili inayoweza kusababisha maarifa.
"Nimepata mifano kadhaa ambapo watu walikuwa chini ya shinikizo kubwa na walikuja na ufahamu wa ajabu," anasema Klein. "Tunapaswa kukumbatia uharaka."
Udharura huu huwalazimu watu kutazama mambo ambayo wangepuuza vinginevyo (kile Klein anarejelea kama "tamaa ya ubunifu"), na wanapopata ufahamu, huwahimiza kufanyia kazi mara moja. Hivi ndivyo mabwana wakubwa wa chess hujaribu mara kwa mara hatua isiyo ya kawaida ambayo huishia kufanikiwa na kuwashindia mchezo.
"Tatizo la mashirika mengi ni kwamba hawahisi shinikizo lolote la kuchukua hatua kulingana na ufahamu ambao wamekuwa nao," anasema Klein. "Wanafanya kama wana wakati wote ulimwenguni na kisha wanaishia kufanya biashara."
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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.