Smart Thinking
Three Essential Keys to Solve Problems, Innovate, and Get Things Done
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Tarcher Perigee
BBB Library: Psychology and Strengths, Personal Success
ISBN: 9780399537752
Editorial Review
Some researchers suggest that IQ tests are not good at predicting success because they do not measure the right forms of intelligence or the right combinations to predict how well people will do in real situations. But even that more nuanced way of thinking about intelligence falls short as an explanation of Smart Thinking. Measuring someone’s IQ does not tell you whether he or she engages in Smart Thinking, because most of what we are talking about when we say that someone has done something smart is not measured by tests of intelligence. That is because IQ tests focus almost on abstract reasoning abilities. But Smart Thinking that led to the cyclone vacuum had nothing to do with abstract reasoning. Smart Thinking is really about the content of what you know and how you use it. It is the ability to solve new problems using your current knowledge.
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Wisdom to Share
The key elements of the general formula for smart thinking are to have high-quality knowledge and to find that knowledge when you need it.
Problem solving can be stressful in part because you have a lot of mental habits that you have generated through years of practice thinking.
Those habits were created by going to school for years and then they were reinforced by all of the thinking you have done since then.
Those habits were created by going to school for years and then they were reinforced by all of the thinking you have done since then.
Smarter thinking requires developing new habits to complement the ones that have already brought you success.
The main benefit of a habit is to take a process that required attention to start with and to turn it into something that can be retrieved effortlessly from memory
To engage Smart Thinking, you want to ensure you have consistent mappings between your environment and desirable behaviors that will support Smart Habits.
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