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Intelligence is revealed in seeing how to use what one knows already to tackle a problem never, in that precise form, seen before – it is creative
Iain McGilchrist • The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World
that a causal learner must master at least three distinct levels of cognitive ability: seeing, doing, and imagining.
Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie • The Book of Why
To succeed, many of those interviewed reported that they had to learn at an early age how to grasp the big picture rather than struggling to decipher the component parts, how to think outside the box, how to act strategically, and how to manage risk taking—skills
Henry L. Roediger III • Make It Stick
The more difficult of the two – high road transfer – is a kind of cavalry charge (to go back to the quotation we used on page 134). It is mentally expensive and if we are in the flow of something, such mental interruptions can easily distract us. High road transfer is at the core of strategic intelligence. In
Bill Lucas • New Kinds of Smart
By contrast, Chamberlin, with his explicitly developmental perspective, implies that integrative thinking is a skill and discipline that even those of us who aren't geniuses can develop. In Chamberlin's view, the opposable mind is there waiting to be used-and with use, it develops its capacity for creating solutions that would otherwise not be evid
... See moreRoger L. Martin • The Opposable Mind
the most successful problem solvers spend mental energy figuring out what type of problem they are facing before matching a strategy to it, rather than jumping in with memorized procedures.
David Epstein • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
Studies on creativity with engineers show that the ability to find not only creative, but functional and working solutions for technical problems is equal to the ability to make abstractions. The better an engineer is at abstracting from a specific problem, the better and more pragmatic his solutions will be – even for the very problem he abstracte
... See moreSönke Ahrens • How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers
the Triple Path Model describes different routes we might take. We use the contradiction path to notice, search for, and apply inconsistencies and anomalies. We use the connection path to increase our exposure to novel ideas. When we get stuck, we use critical thinking methods to locate and correct flawed assumptions and beliefs.
Gary Klein • Seeing What Others Don't: The remarkable ways we gain INSIGHTS
Role 1: Evoke suitable options from memory