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I want to thank Sian Beilock for this article.
How many times have you run up against a roadblock in your thinking about a problem at work, in school, or even in a relationship? Try as you might, you just can’t come up with that formidable idea to pitch to a client or a way to extract yourself from the middle of a dispute between two of your closest friends. Yet by zeroing in on the situation in front of you, you may make the task even tougher.
Say you are at work, charged with developing an innovative advertising campaign for a prospective client. You stop everything you’re doing, sit down at your desk, and concentrate as hard as you can. Yet, this type of focus may actually make it more difficult to get the creative juices flowing than if you hadn’t jumped into the project full force.
Consider the Greek scientist Archimedes, who, as legend has it, was tasked with figuring out whether the King’s new crown was really made of solid gold. Archimedes couldn’t simply break open the crown, because that would have destroyed it. He didn’t know what to do. It wasn’t until he was getting in the bath one day—not thinking about much at all—that he noticed that the level of the water rose as he got in. Archimedes realized he could use the amount of water displaced by an object (such as a crown) to determine its volume and, in turn, its density (and ultimately, whether the crown was made purely from gold or whether it also contained silver, which is less dense).
The story of Archimedes exemplifies what psychologists are only now discovering about the power of letting your mind wander. When you’re stuck on a problem that needs a creative solution, turning your attention to something that requires just a little bit of concentration is a better way to jump-start the creative process than focusing intently on the original task.
Whether it’s a walk in the woods, surfing the sports scores, or even taking a bath, doing something that doesn’t require too much mental effort helps you connect your thoughts in new and unusual ways. Activities that engage your body can be especially good at helping you come up with new and innovative ideas.
Research suggests that moving freely—walking outdoors, pacing around the room, or even gesturing with one hand and then the other—triggers the free flow of ideas needed for creative breakthroughs.
We have the power to either hinder or facilitate the mechanics of creative problem solving. Knowing that the very time we believe we should be chained to our desks mulling over a problem is when we should actually put work aside and take a break can help us come up with new and unusual solutions.
The melody of the notes is what expresses the art of music . 🙂 6stringerPete
It really is all about ”melody”. The melody comes from a language from our heart. Our heart is the muscle in music harmony. The melody is the sweetness that it pumps into our musical thoughts on the fretboard. 🙂 6 stringer Pete
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