Mind wandering can release you from fixation partly because it brings in new stimuli with no responses. The test that's typically used in creativity and even in engineering design courses is to come up with new uses for a brick. We looked at sketches and that is one way, that active way, that designers come up withnew uses - they make a sketchy sketch. So we knew that would help. And the new things turn out to be new perspectives, new really ways of organizing the visual,. whatever you're seeing visually.
My guest today is acclaimed psychologist and longtime Stanford University professor Barbara Tversky who calls on her nearly 50 years in the field of cognitive psychology for an in-depth discussion about how our minds work.
We discuss the Nine Laws of Cognition, why action shapes thought, how the language we use changes what we think, tactics to communicate better on Zoom, why she dove into the work of Leonardo da Vinci, when to use charts and when to avoid them, the importance of perspective taking, learned knowledge vs. earned knowledge, and so much more.
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