How to Get People to Think Creatively

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We've done a lot of work on perspective taking starting with the map situation. We found that even in situations that are non-communicative or where we're looking at somebody else acting, we take the perspective of the actor instead of our own perspectives. So there's been a lot ofWork on how to get people more creative and some of the work has been done by a group advocating mind wandering. Just let your mind go. And that mind wandering can help you get out of fixation which is a real problem and design that you keep designing the same way.

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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