Summary Thinking Wrong: How to Trick our Brains into Being More Innovative | by Rita McGrath | Jul, 2023 | Medium rgmcgrath.medium.com
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Breaking out of predictable patterns and opening our minds to new possibilities is crucial for fostering innovation, as our brains tend to conserve energy by relying on established neural pathways.
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- We become unconsciously competent at something once we've learned it
- In order to be more innovative, we need to think wrong and open our minds to new possibilities
- Leaving the predictable path and thinking on the bold path is necessary for novel solutions and innovations
- The Overton Window represents the range of accepted policies and ideas by a population
- It is possible to shift the Overton Window and expand accepted policies
- To spark our imagination, we need to encounter something unexpected
- The author suggests that intelligent failures should not be squandered
- Procrastination can be eliminated by keeping a specific part of the brain in optimal condition
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To foster innovation, it is important to break out of predictable patterns and "think wrong" by opening our minds to new possibilities. Our brains conserve energy by relying on established neural pathways.
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In order to break out of predictable patterns and foster innovation, it is necessary to "think wrong" by opening our minds to new possibilities. When we become unconsciously competent at something, our brains conserve energy by relying on established neural pathways. However,