Smart Thinking for overcome complexities.
Hi All , From this article I am going to give some tips on smart thinking to overcome from the complex struggling.
Critical thinking and problem-solving are among the foundational skills needed in the modern workplace. They help you break down complex problems and remove barriers such as overthinking and overengineering that stand in the way of simple solutions.
Why think like a five-year-old?
Kids under five are amazing. They are self-development machines. Their curiosity, their creativity, their ability to solve problems, truly extraordinary. You know, those kids will do anything at any time. You put them in a room and they will take building blocks and modeling clay and build them entire world around them. They believe in Santa. They believe in the Tooth Fairy. They believe in anything. They have a kind of, I can attitude. Yet, as we get older we tend to be blindsided by the things that get in the way, the obstacles, the reasons why we can’t do stuff. So maybe if we think more like five-year-olds, we can accomplish extraordinary things. And the good news is there are three simple things that I want to share with you now that you can do to tap into your inner five-year-old. The first is the idea of the I can. Now, most of the time, whenever we think of the problem through as adults, we talk about the things we can’t do. So simply changing that language from thinking about the things you can’t do to the things you can do can be hugely beneficial. The second thing which children do which again, sadly as adults we don’t spend enough time doing is playing. As kids it’s something we’re expected to do, but as that adult, somehow we see it as something immature. But you know what, if you get the modeling clay out, if you just lose yourself in your imagination for a little while amazing things happen. You open your mind up to possibility, and that allows you to think clearly and with less complexity. And the third thing really comes from my time as a school principal working with these remarkable children. And it’s the ability to laugh. You know, as adults, we spend so much of our working lives working hard and being serious because we see work as important and vital. Yet we forget that actually it’s really important to laugh, even in our professional lives. And it’s important to laugh in our professional lives because it allows us to relax. And if we’re relaxed, we think clearer. And if we think clearer we’re able to solve complexity in much more simple form. So the next time you feel that kind of friction come on, that blocker in front of you, that I can’t do something. Just take a step back, take a breath, and say, “I’m going to tap into my inner five-year-old”. And in fact felt that the solutions came to them far more simply. Really in so many ways, it’s child’s play.
Deploying the curiosity quotient
The curiosity quotient. Now, many of you will recognize the term IQ, intelligence quotient, as the way we measure how bright and intelligent and clever people are. And to an extent that’s true, but I want you to imagine that IQ is like the processing power in your computer, but in order to do really cool stuff, a computer needs software and the CQ, the curiosity quotient is very much that software. And it’s really important that we stimulate it, that we kick start it in the people we’re working with. People weren’t straight into process and systems. They were able to think more expansively and more creatively.
And the really good news is there are three ways that you can develop the curiosity quotient for yourself. The first, is to never stop asking why.
You know, all of us that have had children in the backseat of a car on a long journey, will remember that familiar feeling of exhaustion as your
child keeps saying to you things like, “But why is the sky blue? “Why is the grass green? Why do cows mow?” But actually that ability to ask those active
simple questions, which stimulate our curiosity is the way we fire our imagination, and we fire our ability to see the world differently. So it’s
really something that’s hugely important. And the danger is that as we grow older, we stop asking so many of those why questions? Not because we don’t see the world that way anymore, not because we don’t have the underlying curiosity, but because we feel under pressure to know the answer and to feel that if any point we ask something, we feel everyone else thinks we should know the answer to we’re going to somehow appear stupid or not as clever as them.
And then finally, don’t allow your curiosity quotient to stagnate. Don’t get to a point where you become complacent, never stop challenging yourself,
never stop asking why, never stop being curious. One little tip, is every day, and I know this sounds a little bit kooky, take a dictionary, look for a
new word, understand what it means and challenge yourself to use it the following day in some kind of conversation, because the thing about CQ, is it’s habitual.
The more you do it, the more you use it. The more you use it, the more simple the world can become.
