What and how to develop thinking. How to develop logical thinking: training and games

Henry Ford

When a person asks the question of how to develop thinking, it can be said with full confidence that he understands perfectly well what role it plays in our life. And this role, believe me, is huge. Thanks to developed thinking, each of us can achieve very high results in almost any business, even without having the necessary knowledge for this, since well-developed thinking will easily lead a person to any knowledge he needs and allow him to use it competently. Thinking is the most important tool for a person in this world. There are many kinds of thinking, as well as ways to develop them. And each type of thinking has its advantages and some, as a rule, not very significant, disadvantages. Thinking can be: logical, analytical, deductive, inductive, systemic, creative, and so on. At the same time, any thinking is reduced to one common action that allows it to function. And in order to develop thinking, it is necessary to learn how to perform this action effectively. In this article, I will tell you about what and how you can do to develop your thinking.

To begin with, let's, friends, find out what thinking is. As you probably know, there are quite a few definitions of thinking [as well as everything else in this world], each of which reflects different sides, or aspects of this rather complex class of mental processes. And without a doubt, each of the definitions has a greater or lesser right to exist, and each of them is useful in its own way. I will give my thinking, in my opinion, the most correct and precise definition, from which we will proceed in the future. It is different from the definitions you might find in books on the subject. But it suits me just fine, and I hope it suits you too.

Thinking is the process of searching for relevant and/or new information, or, if you prefer, searching for truth, through questions that a person poses to himself and then moves in many different directions to find several answers to each of his questions and choose from them most from his point of view the correct answer. This search must be carried out by a person both in the external and in his inner world. Or you can also say this: thinking is the process of switching a person’s attention with the help of questions posed to himself from one information to another and establishing a logical connection between these pieces of information. Moreover, information can be not only real, but also fictional, when a person himself comes up with something new, that is, comes up with a new answer to his question. The quality of thinking is determined by the ability of a person to come up with new information, or very skillfully manipulate the information he already has in order to find a solution to some issue, some problem, to find something that he does not yet know about. That is, new information, new knowledge - you can come up with the help of questions correctly posed to yourself.

Thus, everything that concerns thinking, for us, comes down to the ability of a person to pose the right questions and look for answers to them. Moreover, the more intense, intense and more complex this search, the better and more effective the person's thinking. And the easier it is to search for information, the fewer questions a person asks himself and the faster he finds the easiest answers to the questions that arise before him, the weaker his thinking. Let's say, if a person does not look for new information at all, when some questions arise before him, but is content with ready-made answers that he knows and which, from his point of view, are not just true, but the only true ones, but in fact often turn out to be superficial and outdated , then it is simply not necessary to talk about the presence of a well-developed thinking in him. And it's another matter when a person actively seeks or in some cases even comes up with answers to his questions, that is, creates new information based on existing information. In this case, we can say that his thinking is well developed. But putting the right question in front of you, so that with its help you come to another right question, and then to another question, and so on until you find the answer you need to solve a specific problem or task, is very difficult. Therefore, it is impossible to really develop your thinking well by solving puzzles and puzzles, guessing crossword puzzles, playing chess, logic puzzles, picking up a Rubik's cube and the like. These are all child's play for our thinking. In order to develop, it must work on more complex and at the same time competently set tasks, dealing with their solution with the help of correctly selected questions.

Let me briefly explain how our thinking works. Our thoughts, if we consider them as a process that we call thinking, are a kind of hooks that connect some images and concepts in our head with other images and concepts. We call this relationship a causal relationship, when another follows from one phenomenon, or another from one statement. And images and concepts are the types of information that we operate with. But when we consider our thoughts already as information that is stored in our head in the form of images and concepts, then with the help of questions and the search for answers to them, we establish causal relationships between these thoughts [between information cells] and with their help we collect a general picture of the vision of the world or a general picture of a single situation. That is, you see, friends, our thinking is a kind of instruction for working with information, which is based on correctly posed questions.

Above, I said that a person himself must put questions before himself in order to think, but in fact, thinking turns on, or better to say, starts, and when looking for answers to other people's questions. Because other people's questions, in turn, generate questions in your head. Well, let's say I ask you this question: “How can I light a fire?”, And you already need to start thinking, start looking for information in order to answer me something. How will you do it? You will also ask yourself the question - what and how you better answer me. You can tell me that you don't know how fires are made, or you can give me necessary information on this issue, if you have it, or you can think of something else, for example, ask a counter question: “Why do you need this?”. This choice that you will make, deciding what and how to answer me, is a thinking process that will consist of questions you pose to yourself and search for answers to them. If you think very carefully about your answer, giving it enough attention and sorting through all the possible options in order to find the best, then your thinking will be conscious, and if you answer automatically, then your thinking will be unconscious. It also consists of questions and answers, but they do not fall into your field of attention, so you cannot control them. So a question that comes to you from the outside will inevitably lead to several questions inside your head that will start the process of thinking. If this question is difficult, then you will have to tinker a lot with the information you have before finding a suitable answer, provided that your thinking is conscious. You may need to modify the information you have in some way to adapt it to your specific situation, or you may want to ask clarifying questions to the person asking the question or questions to you to better understand what question you need to seek an answer to. . In other words, all thinking is based on questions and answers. This is to put it simply. And we do not need to complicate this issue with you.

As you can see, friends, having defined thinking, we have already partly answered the question of how to develop this very thinking. You need to learn how to ask the right questions and be able to find answers to them, both right and wrong. And then to determine which of the answers found may be correct. And for this, again, you need to ask the right question, which will allow you to move even further and clarify even more information for yourself. In general, the process of thinking is not an easy process. Thinking has always been hard. But it needs to be done.

So, what have we found out. We found out that in order to develop thinking, it is necessary, firstly, to launch it, and secondly, to improve its work. How to start thinking? To do this, as we have learned, you need to ask yourself the right question. What is the correct question? The right question is first of all a question about a question. This is the very first question you need to ask yourself when thinking about this or that question. That is, you must understand - why do you need to puzzle over the question before you, why go deep into some topic at all, for what purpose will you do this? You see, anyone, even the most smart person- you can download information that is absolutely useless for him so that his brain starts working on it, to the detriment of more important matters. Thus, a person can simply be distracted from thoughts that are important to him. But thinking is what we are given to avoid such situations. Therefore, by asking why we should think about anything at all, we can control our thinking and use it for our own good. Therefore, I repeat, the question about the question is the very first question that you need to ask yourself in order to properly set up your thinking.

Next, you need to think about how many answers there can be to a particular question to which you decide to find an answer. In order not to think linearly and stereotyped, you need to take a broader look at the questions you are facing. Never allow yourself to be satisfied with just one answer to a particular question - look for as many answers as possible, asking yourself what they, these answers, can still be, in addition to those that you already know. The more options you find, the better. If you can't find new answers, think of them. And no matter how absurd they turn out, the main thing is that they will not allow you to slow down your thinking by stopping the process of finding answers with new questions. And this process must necessarily last as long as possible in order to give your brain the load necessary for its development, thanks to which you can, so to speak, pump your thinking. It's like with muscles - you can't do push-ups or pull-ups once to make them grow and make them more resilient. Muscles need to be loaded until they go beyond their limits in order to adapt to new loads, only then they will begin to grow and become more resilient. And only then will your thinking begin to develop, when it will go beyond its current capabilities with the help of the necessary load. Therefore, ask yourself questions and look for, construct, invent answers to them until you feel that the limit of your mental capabilities has been overcome. The brain must get used to building logical chains, creating cause-and-effect relationships, finding new information with their help, generating new information, connecting images and concepts with each other and constructing from them a complete picture of the world or some particular phenomenon. So try to make automatic decisions as little as possible, no matter how correct they are, so as not to wean your brain to think. You can train your thinking in this way constantly, in any situation - just by being curious about everything that surrounds you and asking yourself more and more questions about what you want to know.

And finally, the last thing I want to tell you about in this article, but not the last one in this matter, is the curiosity I have already mentioned above, as well as such a thing as doubt, or better to say, a state of doubt. With the help of doubt and curiosity, you can generate an incredible number of questions, the search for answers to which will allow you to actively develop your thinking. Curiosity encourages a person to look beyond what he knows. With its help, a person can ask questions about a variety of things about which he would like to know as much as possible. And curiosity plus doubts encourage a person to doubt the truths that he already knows. And then he asks a very important question, both for any scientist and for each of us: “Why is something arranged the way it is, and why does something work the way it works?” So curiosity helps us think big and far, and doubt plus curiosity helps us think deep. The main thing is that you, friends, have questions, and you are not content with the answers to them known to you, but are looking for new answers to these questions for you and new answers in general. Then your thinking will work and develop.

I can't help but tell you that I have a very interesting training program that allows you to develop thinking. It comes down to just the two main actions I described above - the ability to ask yourself questions and the ability to find answers to them with the help of other questions. This program is very unusual, you probably have not come across anything like this in your life, because, as far as I know, few places teach the ability to ask questions, especially to yourself, basically everywhere people are taught something with the help of ready-made answers. So for those who are interested, you can try to pump your brain in an unusual, but very useful way for the development of thinking.

Finally, I would like to briefly tell you how you can benefit from a very developed mindset so that you do not lose motivation to work on its development. In our time, friends, knowledge is no longer the power it used to be. They are still very important and they need to be received, but it is thinking that comes to the fore in importance. Whoever has it more developed is stronger, or, if you like, more successful in life. And knowledge today quickly becomes obsolete, and it is available to many. Today, almost everyone can get the necessary knowledge, the necessary information - at any time and in any place. In the same cell phone, you can download as much information as you will not be able to master in your entire life. A search engines answer any questions faster and more accurately than any, even a very smart person. Therefore, it is not so important to know a lot, it is much more important to be able to correctly use the knowledge you have and find, or even better, invent new knowledge and create new information. And in order to work productively with different information and benefit from it, you need to have developed thinking. It will help you quickly solve any problems and tasks.

People rarely think about the importance of developed thinking in our lives. Correct thinking gives you the opportunity to radically change yourself and your life, improve financial results, develop new abilities in yourself. It is the mindset that determines our success in business and in life.

Thinking and activity: how are they interconnected?

Before moving on to the question of how to develop your thinking, let's figure out what it is in general and how it needs to be developed.

Thinking can be called the ability of a person to know the world around him with the help of processes occurring inside his brain. The product of thinking is a born thought. Each of us has the ability to think, but the quality of the thought process is different for everyone. Some people have a very developed mindset, excel in their studies, easily find solutions in the most difficult situations, grasp information on the fly, quickly think. Others, on the contrary, do not have the flexibility of the mind, which makes them less desirable and attractive, both professionally and socially.

If you think too much about each situation, you find it difficult to think creatively, you are not active enough where you need to quickly respond and make decisions - this can and should be worked on.

Thinking is directly related to our daily activities and largely determines its results. Where an ordinary person sees the standard moves, works at a standard job and has average financial results, a person with a developed mind acts differently. He sees more opportunities, goes the other way, and gets much better results.

There are different types of thinking, and each is responsible for a specific set of actions and tasks.

Types of thinking:

1. Analytical.With the help of this type of thinking, a person analyzes the information received by him from outside world, structures it in his head and reduces the amount of data received to brief conclusions.
2. Boolean.This kind of thinking allows a person to build logical chains and draw conclusions based on logic.
3. Creative.It is the highly developed creative thinking in a person that makes it possible to characterize it with the adjective “creative”. Thanks to this kind of thinking, people begin to think beyond templates and clichés, creating products. creative activity: paintings, movies, music, advertising, etc.
4. inductive. Allows a person to draw conclusions, going from particular facts to the general.
5. Deductive. In contrast to inductive thinking, this thinking allows a person, by collecting disparate facts, to see a common holistic picture. Remember the famous Sherlock Holmes and his investigations.

Today we will focus on thinking for business. It is this kind of thinking that helps entrepreneurs succeed in their business.

business thinking

Have you ever wondered what separates the average entrepreneur who owns a small company from the owner of a multinational corporation?

The answer to this question lies in the "other" thinking. Famous and successful entrepreneurs look at the world from a different angle, they are not afraid to think differently, thanks to which they see more opportunities for business development and achieve global goals.

Business thinking is a special worldview of people with an entrepreneurial mindset. It consists not just in a single effort made for good, but in a whole philosophy of life, in daily actions aimed at qualitatively transforming one's life and the lives of others by earning money. To develop a business mindset, you need to learn how to think like successful businessmen.

The main principles on which business thinking is based:

I am responsible for what happens in my life and around me

This is one of the main postulates of business thinking. A person who leads other people knows how to be responsible not only for his own life, but also for:

• employees who work for him
• the product he makes
• your business, its impact on the environment
• consumers of its goods or services.

If you tend to shift the responsibility for what is happening to third parties, be sure to work through this point.

Problems and difficulties are new opportunities

If a person with ordinary thinking sees negativity and a reason for worries in the challenges of fate, then a person with business thinking finds in them a new source of growth. Each difficulty is an opportunity to become more effective, learn to solve problems creatively, activate your potential and become even better than yesterday.

Discipline and effort are the main tools on the path to success

Few people love the word "discipline" because it goes hand in hand with daily willpower training. Then people begin to come up with excuses in the form of the phrases “being disciplined is boring”, “life on a schedule is not real life”. In fact, to view the discipline from this angle is to think very narrowly. This word does not imply living according to a plan from bell to bell, but it does include the ability to set your priorities in the right order and act according to these priorities at a given frequency. Is it boring to live following your dreams?

Another concept that is in tandem with discipline is effort. People with a business mindset are constantly making efforts to achieve results. Business requires a lot of attention and concentration, each new step is a new effort. There is no need to be afraid of this word, effort is the path to development. Try it and it will become your habit.

"Risk is a noble cause"

Business is always risky. You can try to minimize them, but it's impossible to eliminate them. In business, as in life, there are no guarantees. A business-minded person is not afraid to take risks. This does not mean that you need to jump into the pool with your head, the risk must be taken into account and considered. You can make an airbag, but still take the risk.

Competition is the impetus for development

Many are afraid of competitors, try to avoid them and exist in isolation. People with a business mindset understand that competition is an opportunity for company growth. Through the study of your competitors, you can deeply explore the market, build your own unique development strategy.

Chasing the perfect takes too much time

When an entrepreneur first enters a business, it often happens that he begins to spend a lot of his time and vitality to ensure that his business is perfect in small things. This is a waste of resources, because behind the little things you can’t see something really important.

Ability to listen and hear

Some businessmen do not want to listen to the opinions of others, taking criticism or advice about the conduct of their business with hostility. Yes, you need to have your own vision of the situation and the core on which the company's policy will be based. But we are surrounded by people who have a lot to learn. Search outside the box thinking people, attract them into your life, hire creative employees, listen to ideas: perhaps one of them will help radically change your business for the better.

Developing a business mindset is not as difficult as it seems. Implement the right habits, track wrong beliefs and change them, and after a while your attitudes will begin to change, and business thinking will become your habitual way of thinking.

TOP 5 rules for developing strategic thinking in business

In business, it is important to be a strategist and think ahead. Strategic thinking is important not only in building a successful business, but also in Everyday life.

5 important rules to help you develop strategic thinking:

A well-timed question can save the day

Constantly conduct an internal dialogue with yourself, ask yourself questions about the business, about your environment, about relationships with people and partners. Don't embellish, be honest with yourself. Think about what these or other actions can lead to, what can follow this or that situation.

Doubt, but within reason

We are all hostages of prejudices and stereotypes. If you think that you always do everything right, then we hasten to upset you - this is also your prejudice. Question your thoughts, be open to new knowledge and information that can help you accept the right decision.

Here it is important not to go too far and not drown in endless doubts. Doubt, check information, listen to alternative opinions and make decisions.

Keep changing focus

Learn to focus on the details first and then switch to the big picture. Train this skill in yourself to form an adequate vision for your business.

Expand your knowledge of the world around you

Do not stop learning not only in theory, but also in practice. Change the environment, do not be afraid to provide in unforeseen situations and meet new people. Be open to new things. The more life experience you have, the more paths you have discovered for yourself, the easier it is to build a strategy.

Take time to "think"

Give yourself time during the day when you can just sit down, pick up a pen and paper, and structure the thoughts and ideas that have arisen in your head for the current day. Think about new opportunities and new ways to grow your business.

Guided by these simple rules, you can develop strategic thinking in yourself and significantly upgrade your business and your life in general.

How to develop logical thinking

One of the most important types of thinking that we need in everyday life and in business is logical thinking. Without developed logical thinking, it will be difficult for you to navigate in a rapidly changing world, build a successful business or make a career.

Here are some simple tips for developing logical thinking:

1. Solve logical problems. There are a huge number of logic puzzles in the vastness of the network, there are special applications for phones that will also help you pump up your logic in the game format.
2. Buy a couple board games, play with your friends or family.
3. Nobody canceled the well-known chess, checkers, backgammon.
4. Read detective stories at your leisure. Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie to help you.

In our digital age, developing your thinking has become much easier and more convenient. There are a lot of resources on the network that accumulate various tasks for the development of one or another cognitive function of our brain. For example, you can train thinking on a simulator Wikium .There's not just you can perform interesting tasks, but also keep statistics of your learning. Upgrade your business thinking, grow your business and get excellent financial results.

The highest level of human knowledge is thinking. The development of thinking is a mental process of creating obvious patterns of the surrounding world that do not require proof. This is a mental activity that has a goal, a motive, actions (operations) and a result.

Development of thinking

Scientists offer several options for defining thinking:

1. The highest stage of assimilation and processing by a person of information, the establishment of cause-and-effect relationships between objects of reality.
2. The process of displaying the explicit properties of objects and, as a result, creating an idea of ​​the surrounding reality.
3. This is the process of cognition of reality, which is based on the acquired knowledge, the constant replenishment of the baggage of ideas and concepts.

Thinking is studied by several disciplines. The laws and types of thinking are considered by logic, the psychophysiological component of the process - physiology and psychology.

Thinking develops throughout a person's life, starting from infancy. This is a sequential process of displaying the realities of reality in the human brain.

Types of human thinking

Most often, psychologists divide thinking by content:

• visual-figurative thinking;

• abstract (verbal-logical) thinking;

• visual action thinking.

Visual-figurative thinking

Visual-figurative thinking implies a visual solution to the problem, without resorting to practical actions. The right hemisphere of the brain is responsible for the development of this species.

Many people think that visual-figurative thinking and imagination are one and the same. You are wrong.

Thinking is based on a real process, object or action. Imagination, on the other hand, includes the creation of a fictitious, unrealistic image that is not in reality.

Developed by artists, sculptors, fashion designers - people of the creative profession. They transform reality into an image, and with its help, new properties are distinguished from standard objects, and non-standard combinations of things are established.

Exercises for the development of visual-figurative thinking:

Question answer

If capital letter N of English alphabet flip it 90 degrees, what will be the resulting letter?
Ear shape of a German Shepherd?
How many rooms are in the living room of your house?

Image creation

Create an image of the last family dinner. Mentally draw an event and answer the questions:

1. How many family members were present, who was wearing what?
2. What meals were served?
3. What was the conversation about?
4. Imagine your plate, where your hands lay, the face of a relative sitting next to you. Feel the taste of the food you have eaten.
5. Was the picture shown in black and white or color?
6. Describe the visual image of the room.

Description of items

Describe each of the following items:

1. Toothbrush;
2. Pine forest;
3. sunset;
4. your bedroom;
5. drops of morning dew;
6. an eagle soaring in the sky.

Imagination

Imagine Beauty, Wealth, Success.

Describe the selected image using two nouns, three adjectives and verbs, one adverb.

Memories

Imagine the people with whom you have communicated today (or someday).

What did they look like, what were they wearing? Describe their appearance (eye color, hair color, height and build).

Verbal-logical type of thinking (Abstract thinking)

A person sees the whole picture, highlights only significant qualities phenomena, not noticing minor details that only complement the subject. Such thinking is well developed among physicists, chemists - people who are directly related to science.

Forms of abstract thinking

At abstract thinking there are 3 forms:

• concept- objects are combined according to signs;

• judgment- approval or denial of any phenomenon or connection between objects;

• inference- conclusions based on several judgments.

An example of abstract thinking:

You have a soccer ball (you can even take it in your hands). What can be done with it?

Options: play football, throw into the ring, sit on it, etc. are not abstracts. Now, if we imagine that good game the ball will attract the attention of the coach, and you can get into a famous football team ... this is already transcendental, abstract thinking.

Exercises for the development of abstract thinking:

"Who's extra?"

From a series of words, select one or more words that do not fit the meaning:

• cautious, fast, cheerful, sad;
• turkey, dove, crow, duck;
• Ivanov, Andryusha, Sergey, Vladimir, Inna;
• square, pointer, circle, diameter.
• plate, saucepan, spoon, glass, broth.

Finding differences

What is the difference:

• train - plane;
• horse-sheep;
• oak-pine;
• fairy tale-poem;
• still life portrait.

Find at least 3 differences for each pair.

Main and secondary

From a number of words, select one or two, without which the concept is impossible, cannot exist in principle.

• Game - players, penalty, cards, rules, dominoes.
• War - guns, planes, battle, soldiers, command.
• Youth - love, growth, teenager, quarrels, choice.
• Boots - heel, sole, laces, clasp, bootleg.
• Barn - walls, ceiling, animals, hay, horses.
• Road - asphalt, traffic lights, traffic, cars, pedestrians.

Read phrases backwards

• tomorrow the premiere of the play;
• Come visit;
• let's go to the park;
• what's for lunch?

The words

Write as best you can in 3 minutes more words with the letter w (w, h, i)

(beetle, toad, magazine, cruelty...).

Come up with names

Come up with 3 most unusual male and female names.

Visual Action Thinking

It implies the solution of mental problems through the transformation of the situation that has arisen in reality. This is the very first way to process the information received.

This kind of thinking actively develops in children. preschool age. They begin to combine various objects into a single whole, analyze and operate with them. Develops in the left hemisphere of the brain.

In an adult, this kind of thinking is carried out through the transformation of the practical use of real objects. Visual-figurative thinking is extremely developed among people who are engaged in industrial work - engineers, plumbers, surgeons. When they see an object, they understand what actions to perform with it. People say that people of such professions have a “full hand”.

Visual-figurative thinking helped the ancient civilizations, for example, to measure the earth, because both the hands and the brain are involved in the process. This is the so-called manual intelligence.

The game of chess perfectly develops visual-effective thinking.

Exercises for the development of visual-effective thinking

1. The simplest but very effective task on the development of this kind of thinking is collection of designers. There should be as many details as possible, at least 40 pieces. Visual instructions can be used.
2. No less useful for the development of this kind of thinking and various puzzles, puzzles. The more details, the better.
3. Make 2 equal triangles from 5 matches, 2 squares and 2 triangles from 7 matches.
4. Turn into a square by cutting once in a straight line, a circle, a rhombus and a triangle.
5. Blind a cat, a house, a tree from plasticine.
6. Determine without special devices the weight of the pillow on which you sleep, all the clothes you are wearing, the size of the room in which you are.

Conclusion

Each person must have developed all three types of thinking, but one type always prevails. You can determine this even in childhood, while observing the behavior of the child.

If you decide to develop your thinking, then you need to understand a few basic principles.

First, the brain can develop at any age, it has neuroplasticity. New neural connections can constantly arise, and connections that are not used can be disbanded over time.

The technique is simple. Let me explain with an example.

If, for example, you want to learn how to run fast, then you set yourself such a task, and then start training. You can run every day, or maybe every other day. You form a specific training schedule, gradually increase the load until you reach the physical form you need.

Accordingly, the development model is implemented in such a way that the body receives a load and develops in the direction where the load comes from.

The same with our thinking, the situation is the same, only here you need not to run, but to strain your brain by setting certain tasks for it.

And if you do this constantly, then the “muscle of intelligence” will be pumped similarly with the muscles of the body.

There are two tricks here, on the one hand, you can perform the exercise, which I will discuss below, this is actually the second part of the article.

On the other hand, you can go through a special training program and master the basics and techniques of creative thinking, and apply them to every situation in your life, making them your daily habit.

In this case, your ability to solve complex problems will grow imperceptibly and you will have a powerful mind that will be able to find answers quickly and to the most difficult questions.

Exercises for the development of thinking

However, here you need to decide what tasks you set for yourself. I think that the most difficult thing is to create something new, to find an extraordinary solution to complex problems.

As a rule, our brain acts according to the usual algorithms, it chooses the simplest solution based on past experience or previously known solutions.

People who achieve success, create new businesses and launch interesting products, have a different type of thinking, they are able to think outside the box and find new facets of what is already known.

Therefore, the exercises presented below are aimed at pumping your ability to think outside the box and creatively, the ability to find new ideas.

This is the most valuable thing.

Of course have different types thinking, on the one hand there is creative thinking, analytical and logical.

But, no matter what type of thinking you use, the ability to find new things and create new combinations is the most valuable and sought-after skill.

A cup of coffee

This is a very good exercise that helps to develop the ability to find new solutions.

In general, all our education at school or in higher educational institution built to repeat after others. We see examples, we solve template problems, but we improve the ability to create something new very little.

Therefore, the parts of the brain that are responsible for creating new ideas in ordinary people are underdeveloped.

This exercise helps close that gap. But it must be done regularly and then it will give a tangible effect. You will learn to see what others do not see, gain the ability to find solutions that are inaccessible to the majority. But all this after a certain amount of training.

So, for starters, take a cup of coffee or some kind of mug. The task will be to find 10 or more non-standard ways to use this item.

How can you use a coffee cup? You can give it to her, you can throw it at someone, you can sell it, you can use it not only for coffee, but for solving other problems, and so on.

At first, the brain begins to throw on the most primitive, simple solutions, there will be several 3-4 of them, but your task is to go further. To find all the extraordinary opportunities, you need to sit and think, reflect, spend time on this, and then you will begin to find the most unusual options that you would not have thought of before.

A cup of coffee is taken as an example. In fact, you can take any items. Once you've completed the coffee cup exercise, you can use another item that you have in your home, or optionally, you can take an abstract item and come up with unusual uses for it.

This exercise develops creative thinking and helps you pump up neural connections that will later help you solve a variety of problems.

Exercise is fun and you can do it on your own or with someone. If you have children, then you can try to do this exercise with them, they will like it and help raise geniuses from your children.

Free associations.

This exercise is a bit similar to the first, but its essence is different. Choose an object, it can also be a cup of coffee or a tangerine or anything else that comes to mind.

And think of what associations can be with this object, but a tangerine can have a ball, a glare of the sun ... and so on.

Again, in the first sentence, the brain first slips you the most familiar options, those that are most similar to the original subject and do not immediately appear in your mind.

You need to pass this level, write three or four options that are the easiest and go further to come up with 10 or more associations for one subject.

This exercise may seem a bit difficult at first, but harder exercises for the brain, the more it gives effect.

This is where creativity comes in, and your ability to find free associations can help you solve creative problems.

Many problems are solved this way, you just need to find some kind of association and, based on it, already develop a new idea.

You can alternate the first second exercise. That is, at first they thought over how many ways to use a cup of coffee could be found, and then they came up with a number of free associations for the same subject.

Such a combination will be very effective and will certainly give rise to your thinking abilities. Here the main thing is to do it all the time, turn it into a small game and everything will work out, the main thing is not to get bored and not to abandon these exercises in a couple of days.

Games

There are also a lot of games for pumping intelligence. Of course, the most famous is chess and checkers. You can play, it will only benefit.

However, one thing must be taken into account, each action that we perform corresponds to a certain neural connection.

If we train our thinking by playing chess, then accordingly the brain will pump the neural connection that is responsible for playing chess. We can do a great job, checkmate and beat strong opponents. But for solving other problems, for example, for finding new business ideas, this thinking will not work.

I think that logical games are additional methods that help develop attention, memory and the ability to strategic thinking. That is, calculating the situation several moves ahead.

If you decide to play chess, for example, then try to develop in yourself going beyond the standard options, think a few steps ahead. Try to remember the location of the pieces and carefully analyze the opponent's actions. In this case, you will get more benefit from the game.

You can also play other games, the main thing is to give a constant load on your brain, then it will be strong in terms of solving various problems.

Here you can draw an analogy with sports, if you pump muscles, then you become stronger. It's the same with intelligence.

P.S.

I specifically did not begin to tell a large number of exercises, the point is not in the quantity, but in how many exercises you will actually do.

Each of them can lead you to a result. Many people are surrounded by books, read a lot of materials, but they don’t do anything.

Do the main thing and you will get a positive effect from this.

If you want to learn more about how to improve your creative thinking, find out what are the traps in thinking and actually get some strategies on how to solve problems, how to find new ideas, then we recommend that you take my training course on creative thinking (the course is still under development) . It will be your guide in terms of self-development with your intellect and finding new meanings.

In professional activities and in everyday life, the organs of perception play an important role. Even an adult can think about the question of how to develop thinking and make their mental activity more efficient.

If you have a weak memory, this is not a reason to worry, it can always be developed. Of course than older man, the more difficult it is to do this, but systematic exercises will help you achieve results and significantly improve your abilities.

In the article we will talk about the fact that physical activity is important for the development of mental activity. We also give examples of exercises and tips to improve brain function. Tips will help develop creative and analytical thinking without any extra effort.

The ability to think and remember largely depends on the physical form a person is in. Fatigue, illness, stress depress nervous system reducing our abilities. Light sports will help support the body: swimming, sprinting, cycling and rollerblading, skiing. Useful morning exercises, as it awakens the body, saturates with oxygen.

The brain necessarily needs an influx of fresh air, so the room must be ventilated as often as possible. It is better to go in for sports on the street or at least with an open window, this will improve the flow of oxygen to the brain.

Sedentary work leads to fatigue, causes stagnation of blood in the organs, so it is important to take breaks accompanied by physical activity. Sometimes it's enough just to walk, to do circular motions hands, neck, several tilts to the side and forward.

By increasing the amount of physical activity, you will soon notice that mental activity began to improve.

Exercises for the development of memory and thinking

1. Reading. Unfortunately, at modern man little time left for reading. We increasingly prefer short notes in social networks, while large texts seem to us an impossible task. This leads to the fact that thinking and memory begin to work worse.

   Make it a rule at least twice a week to read to the end texts on serious topics that require analysis. They should not only be read, but remembered. main idea. In addition to articles, classical, psychological and philosophical literature, as well as related to professional activity. It happens that we seem to be reading, but we cannot remember the last paragraph or page. In this case, go back and re-read, make the brain work.

2. Memorize routes . Once in an unfamiliar place, try to remember how to get back here. During the trip, pay attention to what surrounds you, try to remember the signs of streets and cities. For better memorization, associate objects with some kind of emotion.
3. Good for developing memory Mind games : checkers, chess, puzzles, various board economic games.
4. Remember account passwords . Of course, you also need to write them down, writing down, you help yourself remember them. Use different passwords and nicknames, trying not to refer to your notes, but to remember them. Numbers and names can be tied to certain images.
5. It is believed that to improve memory it is necessary to learn poems. We will offer a slightly different method. The fact is that learning poetry is good if you know that they will come in handy, therefore, in order not to clutter up memory, but at the same time develop it, we will do the following exercise: we read a poem and, without peeping, state it in our own words. For adults, this task is more enjoyable and will help them learn to think outside the box.
6. Remember what happened to you during the day . Try to imagine the sights, sounds, words, and emotions, as well as the people you meet along the way. This exercise will help develop analytical thinking, as well as sum up the day.

We develop creative thinking

A person striving to think effectively is probably interested in how to develop out of the box thinking. There is nothing difficult in this. To begin with, it is important to want to work on yourself, because desire is already the beginning of the path.

Creative thinking is the ability to see something new in the ordinary, the ability to get out of ordinary situations in an unusual way, often more effectively.

• Look at any situation from different angles.
• Write down or memorize any thoughts that come to you, in the future this will help improve the speed of decision making.
• Remove patterns from your life: in thoughts, actions, working moments. Patterns make our thoughts monotonous, memory, creativity, and an individual way of processing information cease to develop.

Often the speed of decision-making is influenced by internal fears and uncertainty - and whether I am doing the right thing. Will have to get rid of them. By the way, fears can also affect memory, preventing a person from remembering traumatic events. The bolder a person acts, the faster he can learn to think outside the box.

We develop analytics

Thinking is necessary for us in order to solve the assigned tasks without errors. Knowing how to develop analytical thinking allows you to improve your understanding of the world, the ability of a person to find a logical and more correct solution. How to develop it in an adult.

• Come up with multiple answers for each question.
• For one problem, ask leading questions that will help speed up the decision.
• Analyze the selected option from all sides, find strengths and weaknesses.
• Make it a rule to analyze what you see and hear, this will gradually increase the speed of thinking and improve the memorization of information.
• Organize the information received into categories: very important, important, medium importance, unnecessary. The same applies to current affairs. Systematization increases the speed of finding the right answer, helps to quickly deal with current affairs.
• Solve logical problems, start with the simplest ones in order to understand how to do it correctly.

Find an individual way of remembering and solving problems

We are all different, and each person has his own unique way of thinking and remembering information. Someone will be able to develop the speed of memory in a few weeks, another person will need a few months, however, this does not mean at all that you need to stop.

Everyone's memory speed is also different. One person needs a single repetition of the material, another needs to watch or read it several times.

Analyze how you remember information. The memorization method will help you find the most effective method assimilation of information. People are divided into three types:

• Visuals - they often operate with images.
• Auditory - they remember what they hear better.
• Kinesthetics - for them, sensations are important.

Having determined your leading type, you can choose the most convenient way of remembering. Remember how it is more convenient for you to perceive information - to read or listen. Do emotions, as well as the ability to touch a thing with your hands, affect the speed of memorization.

Use this system. However, do not forget about others, they should also be developed, and then thinking becomes more productive, and memory is stronger.