Multi-focal lenses help you to see at different distances and depths. Like the eyes that have to accommodate in order to see at different distances and depths, thinking has to be focused to foreground and background phenomena A very useful to multi-focal diagnose problems in a complex organization is the System Thinking Iceberg. The …
Thinkibility Ultimately Explained
What is Thinkibility? Actually, we, the writers of this blog and forthcoming book, don't know yet. But reading this blog post, watching and listening to the links, will help you understand non-verbally, what could be meant by the concept Thinkibility. We use this invented concept to explore what makes thinking special. It gives a global …
Thinkibility
The word thinkibility emerged in a search for a title for this eBook. It then became a way a focusing our search for a part of thinking that we believe is a necessary and more importantly a vital component in a thinking session. The quality of the thinking is vital to ensure that we use …
3D Illusions
Visual illusions distort reality and they are a great way to explore how our brain organises and interprets visual sensory input. Below are some fascinating videos by Markus Raetz. Astonishing 3D illusions. Photo:"Bring That Rock" by federico stevanin
Thinking Loops
What was I thinking? Becoming conscious of the consequences of one’s actions is an important part of the thinking process. Frederic the Great said: "What good is experience if you do not reflect?" We should strive towards being prepared to take a step back and view our thinking from a distance. In a similar way, …
Bangs of Creativity
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 …
World Thinkers’ Ideas – Do What You Love
Using the Internet to promote our skills is becoming increasingly more important. New skills and ideas are required and Peter Thiel says that it is vital to let interests and talents help to us find a career that inspires us. Choosing subjects and topics that we are interested in and love, mean that we are …
Thinkibility Idea Pool – Photos, Pictures and Hieroglyphs
Our brain may be designed for thinking in new ways. Ideas related to neuroplasticity and research by Elkhonon Goldberg suggest that our brain can make new neural connection and restructure neural networks. Elhononon Goldberg suggests that our brain hemisphere may have slightly different tasks to perform. The right hemisphere is activated when we are learning a …
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Thinkibility Idea Pool – What is it like?
Human-to-Animal Mind Echolocating while swooping through the dark night - being a bat can have its advantages. But can we learn anything from thinking about what it is like to be a bat, a dolphin, or a dog? Many of us struggle to consider the world from someone else’s point of view and complicating things …
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Creative Thinking – Left Brain/Rigth Brain Thinking
Many of us associate the search for new ideas with a brainstorming session where ideas are swirling around in the room. Another common picture of is seeing someone lying on the grass, walking on the beach, or watching the view from a mountain top while half-dreaming. In contrast, organising a meeting and deciding the agenda …
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Innovations – hype, a mantra, or fashion
A mystery What is innovation? Is it an improvement, a further development of the product? Is it an extra button? A new colour? Or something impossible? To encourage innovative thinking we need to inspire action and at least in some cases, swim against the tide. The pitfall that many for us step into when trying …
World Thinkers’ Ideas – Creative Machines
Robots are machines that are programmed to perform tasks. Can a robot be creative? And how can you use robots as inspiration for new insights. Driven by a desire to build a scientist smarter than himself, Jürgen Schmidhuber decided to become an artificial intelligence expert. He believes that our dominated place as creativity experts may …
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Blue Economy and Positive Thinking
Positive Steps New ideas and suggestions to solving problems are always interesting to examine. In many cases, there is a lack of obvious signs of the idea or suggestion making any real change. Sometime this way of looking at new ideas can be deceptive. Often new human resource management ideas are regarded as old wine …