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Get Smarter
March 31, 2014
When people care for you they can straighten out your soul.
-Langston Hughes
-Langston Hughes
The author of Smarter Than You Think, Clive Thompson offered these tips for making the most of your mental hardware in Psychology Today (March 2014):
Turn Off Your Computer: "If you're a person who works with words all day, its good to do something completely nonverbal in your spare time.... Knowing when to shift between public and private thinking - when to blast an idea online, when to let it slow-bake - is a crucial skill."
Chew it Over: "Passion drives memory. It is incumbent upon people who want to be creative to really wrestle with the material they are thinking about. So you have to have those disconnected moments when you think without being distracted."
Think in Groups: "Our intelligence has never been entirely just in our heads. A huge amount of our thinking takes place in... the 'extended mind' - all sorts of resources outside us that help scaffold our thinking. We rely on other people as cognitive amplifiers."
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Displaying 1 CommentOMEP USA
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
These are all important and helpful, but they miss the people who think out their fingers, whether with a pencil or a keyboard or on an iPad/tablet. Some folks think as they write, getting all their wobbly ideas down in print, and then reviewing, adding, deleting (very important!), and organizing the words on the screen or page. Sleep on it, then share it with key people who will understand and critique your passion on the page with thoughtfulness and humor. With their feedback and your rewrites, print out the pages and put them in a binder (keep the electronic folder, too; you will have more to add as time goes by. And remember, some publications were in the preliminary stages for years! If it's a great idea, it will only grow, blossom, and establish a root system to stand you in good stead for a long time. Remember, all this is fun!
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