Mind Management, Not Time Management

The Sudden Nature of Insight

So if the cue words are: cream, skate, water, the solution word is ice. Ice goes with each of these three words to form other words: ice cream, ice skate, ice water.

Then, we’ll wrap all of this into Creative Systems. Creative Systems turn your projects into repeatable systems – repeatable systems that are flexible enough and that provide enough space to account for the fickle nature of creative thinking. You’ll learn how to design Creative Systems that allow you to do some of your best thinking when you aren’t

If you could think of more-obvious connections less and less-obvious connections more, you would suddenly have more novel ideas.

Neuroscientists often refer to the prefrontal cortex as the “CEO of the brain.” The prefrontal cortex sits at a big mahogany desk all day and fields proposals from other parts of the brain. The prefrontal cortex keeps things running, and keeps the paychecks coming. But when it comes to creativity, the prefrontal cortex is a real spoilsport.

Tasks that once seemed as if they were one task turned out to neatly separate into several tasks, each promoted by their own separate mood.

Fire the CEO (of Your Brain)

the moment of insight. If we understand what a creative insight is, and how insightful thinking differs from analytical thinking, we can know how to create the conditions for insight to happen.

From a Time Management World to a Mind Management World