As an introduction to a series of blogposts about conceptual thinking we will start by paying attention to "ISH-Thinking". A concept is an abstract pattern in the brain that stands for some regular, recurrent aspect of the world, and to which any number of different words can be attached. Sometimes ago we already pointed out …
Trick your Mind and Challenge the Way you Perceive. . .
The Aromafork, by Molecule-R, is the fork for people just like me. I like to test new things in the kitchen but somehow never gets it right.I love the idea of cooking but is more interested in the idea of tasting different combinations rather than spending hours in the kitchen. Let us say you want …
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Thin-slicing : the power of intuition – Thinkibility Boost
Building up Intuition is "thin-slicing" In an earlier post, we discussed the relation between Reasoning and Intuition on the basis of Kahneman's two interrelated thinking systems. One is fast, intuitive reactive and emotional. The other is slow, deliberate, methodical and rational. Although he acknowledges that the mind functions thanks to a delicate, intricate and sometimes …
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Kaleidoscopic Thinking – Thinkibility Nibble
Looking into a kaleidoscope is a dazzling experience. The glass chips falling apart, and then when shaken, they come back together again. Only this time it is a new beautiful design. Somehow the chips always land in the right place regardless of how much you shake them. The beginning of the word kaleidoscope comes from …
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Do You Need New Eyes? – Thinkibility Nibble
The art of non-building! Marco Canevacci is a member of Berlin-based architectural collective Plastique Fantastique. An architect who is not interested in building buildings, instead he focuses on structures that are impermanent. Soap bubbles, pneumatic machines and loupes (French for magnifying glasses). The bubbles can be squeezed into any urban scenario and they transform our …
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Daily Thinking – Discovering Patterns
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 …
Left Out
Something missing? Well, you can safely assume that any information you are presented with has some relevant information “Left Out”. The originator's perspective, the logic bubble in which he perceives the world and how the information is applied are some possible reasons for the missing information. Also, we may unconsciously miss the presented information because …
Discovering Patterns
Thinking patterns help us to make sense of the world and they support our decisions and actions. A builder do not have to explore the structural calculations every time to build a roof, once he has learnt a certain pattern of how to build it, it makes sense to use it. The same pattern is …
Time as a Search Light for Deliberate Thinking
It is remarkable that neither in management nor in psychological literature much attention is paid to how time influences thinking. However, many expressions indicate the importance of time, like:This is a window of opportunityLet's buy timeDon't wait for time, make time!Time is moneyThe boiling frogA gram in the backpack in the morning weights a kilo …
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How Many Things Are We Missing?
In an earlier blog post Language is not Innocent – How Thinking Patterns are Created we suggested that people construct thinking patterns from their earlier experiences and the agreements they make with their fellow humans about the meaning of behaviour and things. This is convenient because this ways of engaging in the world produces predictability, routine …
Things Children and Astronauts can Help an Inventor With
Data and collection of information is a necessary stage in an inventive process. The process can be thought of as a black box filled with information related to the design that should be processed and new creative ideas should as a result emerge. But what sort of information should we put into the black box …
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World Thinkers’ Ideas – Push the Limits
Your ears… makes you hear. Or Don’t they? Can we learn to extract sensory information from unusual sensory channels? Sensory substitution is a way to work around the loss of one sense by sending information though another channel. Pushing the limits to reach new insights may require new technology. A successful project also requires a …
A Helmet That Slows Down Time
German interaction designer Lorenz Potthast has made software that lets humans alter their own reality. Watch the video below and find out about how this experimental deign helps you to experience a world where the pace is much slower.
Distorted Logic Bubbles
In an interesting article from McKinsey Quarterly Charles Roxburgh explains why good executives back bad strategies. In an earlier blog post we introduced the concept of the “Logic Bubble”. Edward de Bono used the term to describe the set of values, needs, beliefs and experiences that a person sees the world through. We all have …
Logic Bubblegum and Mental Inertia
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 …
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