Thinking about Thinking, Creativity, Innovation and Design
We believe there should be a university that is solely dedicated to the in-depth exploration of “thinking”. Earlier we wrote some Thinkibility Nibbles about how a University that teaches how to think, not what, might look like. In the West Wing scientists and students dissect the existing basic thinking patterns in a scientific discipline. In contrast to this, …
Language is not innocent, it determines how reality is interpreted. Words create logic bubbles that are difficult to escape from. The way we use words may prevent us from finding solutions, restrict new ideas, and lead to wrong public policies. In this blog post we will try in a simple way to explain how thinking …
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One of the most powerful concepts to explain creativity is that “Logic Bubble”. The term was coined in Edward de Bono’s book Future Positive (1979). All thinking takes place within a perception space, within that space everything looks logic from the perspective of the thinker. The logic bubble is formed by values about how the …
An overview of approaches to detect Fake News . What if we could flag Fake News on the Internet? Wouldn’t it be a massive teaching machine in orderly discussing topics?
Welcome to thinkibility! Thinkers’ Prescriptions for Improving Your Thinking about Thinking, Creativity, Innovation and Design A CURIOUS and CREATIVE person gets the same pleasure from exploring risks and searching for opportunities. Thinkibility will open your mind to explore thinking from a range of perspectives. Through fun and thoughtful examples and exercises, Gijs and Asa …
In many books about innovation, it is stated that “You just have to be willing to challenge the assumptions of your industry, ask fresh questions, and –get this — embrace your humanness.” Daniel H. Pink Such calls are completely inadequate. Moreover, it suggests that the detection of assumptions is simple. On the contrary, the nature …
We are still wondering why “thinking” (Thinkibility) is not given much attention as a phenomenon in itself, except by some philosophers who have made thinking, without necessity, a highly complex and abstract matter (Opinion is ours). There are no thinking courses, thinking festivals, thinking Olympics, thinking galleries, thinking lectures. In libraries and stores, there are …
Social dynamics can refer to the behaviour of groups that results from the interactions of individual group members as well as the study of the relationship between individual interactions and group level behaviours. It is often assumed that the act of thinking is highly individual. Better thinking or poor thinking is located inside the brain or …
Since we started the posts Interesting Reading Areas since 2013 we noticed that most end-of-the-year lists of books consist of books that have already been read by others and many of the lists consist of the same books. Often the lists consist of books that have topped the sales lists during the year. The underlying …
There are some fascinating developments which call for some “What If Thinking”. Four technological developments Nowadays more or less everyone is connected to someone via the Internet. It is assumed that any person can connect to another person via a friend of a friend, all it takes is six or fewer steps for anyone to …
In a Reversal, the usual supposed cause-effect relation between objects or subjects are turned upside down. For example, it is supposed that the establishment of a permanent observation post increases the safety of recreational sailing. A Reversal could set up that the establishment of a permanent observational post rightly effective decreases the safety of sailors. The …
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For this Thinkibility Boost we invite you to reflect on an insight we recently got. While we are at the brink of being locked into a possible World War III, it is amazing and baffling that neither opinion-leaders nor commentators in the media regardless their positions, opinions or views on the conflict in Syria, analyze …
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Daily Thinking – the thinking you do quiet effortless during the day – do have some features. In this blog we will point out some of the characteristics of Daily Thinking that differs from scientific or deliberate thinking. However, that does not mean in our opinion that Daily Thinking habits does not affect or have …
Everyday people try to persuade us. Politicians, family member, managers and organisations do their best to convince us that their idea, product or solution is the only alternative or the ultimate and best. We work hard to convince friends and families that our point of view is superior. The influencing game is hard and often …
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You can never have too many books. Or can you? I might not be as obsessed with books as Count Libri but I there is nothing like a good book. Guglielmo Libri Carucci dalla Sommaja was. . . “Admirable in the salons and incomparably friendly, flexible, with gentle epigrams of sweet humour, elegant flattery, a …
Welcome to thinkibility! Thinkers’ Prescriptions for Improving Your Thinking about Thinking, Creativity, Innovation and Design A CURIOUS and CREATIVE person gets the same pleasure from exploring risks and searching for opportunities. Thinkibility will open your mind to explore thinking from a range of perspectives. Through fun and thoughtful examples and exercises, Gijs and Asa …
Many people regard Reasoning the opposite of Intuition. Reasoning is rational thinking using logic, while Intuition is unconscious, a paranormal gift, a magical awareness not accessible for normal humans, or a connectivity to an all knowing esoteric field. However, psychologists have proposed a dual-process theoryof the mind. The output of “thinking” could be the result …
Several Ideas Did the big bang of creativity on earth occur approximately 400,000 years ago with the advent of Homo sapiens? Or, was it when we anatomically evolved around 200,000 years as the species Homo sapiens sapiens? Is language a necessary condition for creativity? As language leaves no trace, the date of its emergence …
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