La neurociencia dice que este simple hábito cerebral puede hacer que cualquiera sea más creativo

La neurociencia dice que este simple hábito cerebral puede hacer que cualquiera sea más creativo

Los niños dicen las cosas más locas. Proponen las historias e ideas más creativas.

Bueno, ¿y si te dijera que una nueva teoría sugiere que muchos adultos pierden sus poderes creativos a medida que envejecen porque han sido entrenados para olvidar lo que los hizo tan creativos en ese entonces?

En cambio, se les enseña a adoptar otros hábitos cerebrales que podrían ser más fáciles de explicar en las escuelas y los negocios, pero que no son tan adecuados para la tarea.

Todo se reduce a la diferencia entre dos formas diferentes de pensar sobre la resolución de problemas: pensamiento divergentey pensamiento creativo. Vamos a explorar

pensamiento divergente

Por un lado tenemos pensamiento divergente. Si alguna vez has participado en un ejercicio corporativo de lluvia de ideas, lo has hecho, neurocientíficamente hablando, aunque nadie lo haya llamado así.

  • El pensamiento divergente es “naturaleza ideal o visionaria‘, dijo Kathryn Haydon, autora de, La guía no obvia para ser más creativo, sin importar dónde trabajes. “Se trata de una gimnasia rigurosa de la mente que conduce a soluciones inesperadas”.
  • Ejemplo aleatorio: imagina que necesitamos forzar una cerradura pero no tenemos la combinación. ¿Cómo encontramos una solución creativa?
  • Bueno, podríamos adivinar la combinación. O podríamos averiguar cómo seleccionarlo. O podríamos abrirlo con una herramienta. Son ideas decentes, pero son espontáneas, desordenadas y realmente no se complementan entre sí.

pensamiento narrativo

Contraste esta mentalidad con pensamiento narrativo. Este es el tipo de pensamiento que verás en los niños cuando están en su apogeo creativo.

  • Se trata más de contar historias; Cada punto de la exploración creativa desencadena un punto de partida para el siguiente.
  • Entonces, ¿cómo podríamos abrir la cerradura? Bueno, podríamos intentar adivinar la combinación. ¿Quizás es el cumpleaños del dueño del castillo? O tal vez es otra cita. Tal vez sea el aniversario de su primer día de trabajo o su aniversario de boda. ¿Y si probamos uno de estos?
  • Supongo que este sería un niño bastante avanzado (ganzúas, aniversarios y todo eso), pero esta falta de historia en realidad aclara el punto: el pensamiento narrativo implica seguir el camino en el que fuiste instintivamente creativo cuando eras niño, y con él llegar a ideas creativas como adulto.

Los niños son más creativos que los adultos.

A principios de este año, los autores Angus Fletcher y Mike Benveniste, afiliados a Project Narrative en la Universidad Estatal de Ohio, explicaron esta teoría en la revista revisada por pares: Anales de la Academia de Ciencias de Nueva York.

En resumen, dicen que si bien el pensamiento divergente se enseña ampliamente, “durante décadas se han planteado inquietudes [its] Oportunidad.”

Pero sí señalan que, si bien los niños son “más imaginativamente creativos que los adultos”, una pista sugiere que no usan el pensamiento divergente porque no son tan buenos en dos elementos clave de esa forma de pensar: “memoria y asociación lógica”. “

Que tiene sentido; Los niños simplemente no tienen la experiencia y los datos para pensar en los problemas de esta manera. Pero siguen siendo muy creativos porque el pensamiento narrativo funciona mucho mejor.

La falta de pensamiento divergente es que no puede “ayudar a preparar a las personas para nuevos desafíos de los que sabemos poco”. argumentó Fletcher. “No puede producir acciones verdaderamente originales. Pero la maquinaria narrativa del cerebro humano sí puede”.

Enseña nuevos trucos a los viejos soldados

En teoría suena genial. Pero, ¿alguien lo ha probado o ha encontrado una manera de enseñar a los adultos en puestos de responsabilidad cómo pensar narrativamente para ser más creativos?

De hecho, Fletcher y Benveniste utilizaron exactamente este enfoque para capacitar a los oficiales militares superiores en la Escuela de Comando y Estado Mayor del Ejército de los EE. UU., así como a los ejecutivos de las compañías Fortune 50.

Como ejemplos, alientan a los estudiantes a usar el tipo de técnicas que usan los escritores para crear historias, literalmente imaginando nuevos mundos que se desarrollan en su mente.

o lo intentan cambio de perspectiva: “A un ejecutivo de una empresa se le puede pedir que resuelva un problema pensando como otro miembro de su equipo”.

Las predicciones precisas no son realmente el punto, dijo Fletcher. “Se trata de abrirse a posibilidades radicalmente diferentes”.

Tren para la Creatividad; No contrates por eso

Fletcher y Benveniste dicen que este tipo de pensamiento tiene otro beneficio para los líderes empresariales y otras personas que necesitan formar equipos.

Si el pensamiento narrativo puede hacer que cualquiera sea una persona más creativa, significa que hay menos enfoque en la creatividad como un rasgo al reclutar y contratar.

“Es mejor contratar a un grupo diverso de personas y luego capacitarlos para que sean creativos”, dijo Fletcher. “Crea una cultura que reconoce que ya hay personas creativas en su organización de las que no se está aprovechando”.

Cómo escribo en mi e-book gratuito Neurociencia: 13 formas de entender y entrenar tu cerebro para la vidaNo hay nada más fascinante o útil que aprender sobre el funcionamiento inesperado del cerebro humano.

Y me encanta la idea de que podamos entrenar nuestros cerebros para ser más creativos.

“Estamos obsesionados con la idea de que algunas personas son más creativas que otras”, dijo Fletcher. “Pero la realidad es que simplemente no entrenamos la creatividad adecuadamente”.

Las opiniones expresadas aquí por los columnistas de Heaven32 son propias y no de Heaven32.

. \"It involves rigorous gymnastics of the mind that lead to unexpected solutions.\" \t
  • Random example: Imagine that we need to open a lock, but we don't have the combination. How can we find a creative solution? 
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  • Well, we could guess the combination. Or we could figure out how to pick it. Or we could break it open with a tool. They're decent ideas, but they're spontaneous, non-ordered, and not really building on each other.
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    Narrative thinking

    \n Compare this way of thinking to narrative thinking. This is the kind of thinking that you'll watch children do when they're at their creative peak. \n
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    • It's more about storytelling; each point in the creative exploration sparks a jumping off point for the next one.
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    • So, how could we open the lock? Well, we could try to guess the combination. Maybe it's the birthday of the lock-owner? Or else, maybe it's another date. Maybe it's the anniversary of his first day at work, or his wedding anniversary. What if we tried one of those? 
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    • I suppose this would be a fairly advanced child -- lock-picking and anniversaries and all that -- but that deficiency in the story actually makes the point more clear: Narrative thinking involves taking the way that you were instinctively creative as a child, and using it to come up with creative ideas as an adult.
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    Kids are more creative than adults

    \n Earlier this year, authors Angus Fletcher and Mike Benveniste, who are associated with Project Narrative at The Ohio State University, explained this theory in the peer-reviewed journal, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. \n In short, they say that while divergent thinking is widely taught, \"for decades, concerns have been raised about [its] adequacy.\" \n But, they point out, while children are \"more imaginatively creative than adults,\" there is a clue that suggests they don't use divergent thinking, because they're not as good at two key elements of that mode of thinking: \"memory and logical association.\" \n It makes sense; kids just don't have the experience and data to think through problems that way. But, they're still highly creative, because narrative thinking works so much better.  \n The deficiency in divergent thinking is that it cannot \"help prepare people for new challenges that we know little about,\" Fletcher argued. \"It can't come up with truly original actions. But the human brain's narrative machinery can.\" \n

    Teaching new tricks to old soldiers

    \n It sounds great in theory. But has anyone actually tested it, or come up with a way to teach adults in positions of responsibility how to think narratively in order to become more creative? \n In fact, Fletcher and Benveniste have been using exactly this approach to train senior military officers at the U.S. Army's Command and General Staff College, along with executives at Fortune 50 companies. \n As examples, they encourage students to use the kind of techniques that writers use in order to create stories -- literally to imagine developing new worlds in your mind. \n Or else, they try perspective-shiHeaven32ing: \"An executive at a company might be asked to answer a problem by thinking like another member of their team.\" \n Accurate predictions aren't really the point, Fletcher said. \"It's about making yourself open to imagining radically different possibilities.\" \n

    Train for creativity; don't hire for it

    \n Fletcher and Benveniste say there's another benefit to this kind of thinking for business leaders and others who have to assemble teams. \n If narrative thinking can make anyone into a more creative person, it means there's less need to look for creativity as trait, when recruiting and hiring. \n \"It's better to hire a diverse group of people and then train them to be creative,\" Fletcher said. \"That creates a culture that recognizes that there are already creative people in your organization that you aren't taking advantage of.\" \n As I write in my free e-book Neuroscience: 13 Ways to Understand and Train Your Brain for Life, there's nothing more fascinating or useful than learning about the unexpected ways in which the human brain works.  \n And I love the idea that this is how we might train our brains to be more creative. \n \"We are obsessed with the idea that some people are more creative than others,\" Fletcher said. \"But the reality is that we're just not training creativity in the right way.\" ","inc_code_only_text":null,"inc_pubdate":"2022-06-26 05:45:00","inc_promo_date":"2022-06-26 05:45:00","inc_custom_pubdate":null,"inc_feature_image_override":"","inc_feature_image_background_color_override":null,"inc_show_feature_imageflag":true,"inc_feature_image_style":"pano","inc_image_caption_override":null,"inc_autid":0,"inc_typid":1,"inc_staid":7,"inc_serid":0,"inc_prtid":0,"inc_activeflag":true,"inc_copyeditedflag":false,"inc_flag_for_reviewflag":false,"inc_lock_articleflag":false,"inc_react_displayflag":true,"inc_filelocation":"bill-murphy-jr/neuroscience-says-this-simple-brain-habit-can-make-anybody-more-creative.html","inc_override_url":null,"inc_hide_article_sidebarflag":false,"inc_custom_sidebar":null,"inc_show_read_moreflag":true,"inc_display_video_at_bottomflag":false,"inc_autoplay_videoflag":true,"inc_full_width_read_moreflag":false,"inc_custom_footer":null,"inc_custom_teaser":null,"inc_hide_video_prerollflag":false,"inc_custom_css":null,"inc_custom_javascript":null,"inc_canonical_url":null,"inc_meta_keywords":"neuroscience, train brain, creativity, become more creative, how to raise successful kids, the Ohio state university","inc_column_name_override":null,"inc_newsworthyflag":false,"inc_notepad":null,"inc_track_changesflag":false,"inc_cta_text":null,"inc_cta_url":null,"time_updated":"2022-06-26 05:45:04","channels":[{"id":4,"cnl_name":"Lead","cnl_filelocation":"lead","cnl_featuretype":"None","cnl_custom_color":"009CD8","cnl_calculated_color":"F7CE00","cnl_contributor_accessflag":true,"cnl_custom_article_footer":null,"cnl_global_nav_background_color":null,"cnl_global_nav_background_gradient_start":null,"cnl_global_nav_background_gradient_end":null,"cnl_iflid":0,"sortorder":null}],"categories":[],"primarychannelarray":null,"authors":[{"id":3275,"aut_name":"Bill Murphy Jr.","aut_usrid":428030,"aut_base_filelocation":"bill-murphy-jr","aut_imgid":51492,"aut_twitter_id":"BillMurphyJr","aut_title":"www.billmurphyjr.com","aut_blurb":"Bill Murphy Jr. is the founder of Understandably.com and a contributing editor at Heaven32. 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