Today, I want to take a look at how we can break down the concept of a jungle gym through the lens of the mental model to look for potential improvements to experience for our kids. In my original series on innovation, we went through a sequence of questioning the models that make up a circumstance or […]
Continue ReadingPart 5 Welcome back to the last article of this series on building effective mental models and using them to think creatively. We have come a long way. We discussed fundamental mental models and wide mental models. We learned about how to use learning and practice to build memorable mental models to be called into […]
Continue ReadingPart 4 Welcome back to the series. We have established that each of our effectiveness in creating more efficient and more creative solutions is largely based on the depth and breadth as well as the quality and quantity of our mental models. These models reduce down further into other lower level mental models that draw […]
Continue ReadingPart 3 Much about reality can be understood from within the context of mental models that break down into further lower-level mental models. When we go about our day, we are constantly fitting both what we perceive through our senses and what we discover in our thoughts into the larger web of mental models already […]
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Part 2 I am happy to have you back for the second article in the series. I hope since you read the last article that you have been perhaps a bit more conscious of the mental models you hold in your own head, and how they represent what is going on around you. In our […]
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Part 1 How often do you want a deeper understand of how somebody else, an expert in engineering or basketball perhaps, created their expertise? How did they learn, and what did they practice? How did they create innovation in their field? Do they have a strategy? Or do they haphazardly learn anything they can get […]
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How do we achieve success? “Be more creative.”, they say. “You have to be more innovative.” It sounds like good advice, I guess. But how can we do it? How do we see the things that others don’t? How to we encourage good ideas to surface when our minds are blank? How can we approach […]
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