Isn't It Better to Overcome the Misconceptions?

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The most helpful thing i found a about trying to help with this problem was the was analogies. The reason analogy helps is because you're basically taking the new idea and attaching it to something else that's already in the person's head. And then a, when you do that, those two things added together, can kind of overpower the the misconception. Well, i don't recall if you actually mention this example in your book, when you talk about scientific progress m a, albert einstein in special relativity, is the perfect example of what you're talking about. I mean, it's a fascinating story, and i'm not a super good historian about this stuff,. But we give

There is no general theory of problem-solving, or even a reliable set of principles that will usually work. It’s therefore interesting to see how our brains actually go about solving problems. Here’s an interesting feature that you might not have guessed: when faced with an imperfect situation, our first move to improve it tends to involve adding new elements, rather than taking away. We are, in general, resistant to subtractive change. Leidy Klotz is an engineer and designer who has worked with psychologists and neuroscientists to study this phenomenon. We talk about how our relative blindness to subtractive possibilities manifests itself, and what lessons might be for design more generally.

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Leidy Klotz received his Ph.D. in Architectural Engineering from Penn State University. He is currently Copenhaver Associate Professor of Engineering Systems and Environment and Architecture at the University of Virginia. Before becoming a professor, he worked as a school designer, and before that was a professional soccer player for the Pittsburgh Riverhounds. His new book is Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less.