Solving Novel Problems With Elastic Thinking

A LOT HAS BEEN WRITTEN ABOUT THE RAPID GLOBALIZATION AND FAST- PACED TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION THAT HAS DRIVEN IT. BUT WITH TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENT, WE MUST ALSO CONVERSE ABOUT THE NEWER WAYS TO THINK TO SUCCEED IN THIS ERA. IN THIS EVER-CHANGING WORLD, AN ELASTIC THINKING IS ALL THAT IS NEEDED RIGHT NOW TO SURVIVE.

Logical and analytical thinking is so passé, the future belongs to the elastic thinkers. Elastic thinking provides us with the aptitude to solve innovative problems and overcome the neural and mental barriers that can hamper us from looking beyond the existing order. The main thing to understand here is how our brains produce elastic thinking, and how we can nurture it. Unlike analytical reasoning, elastic thinking arises from what scientists call "bottom-up" processes - one quality stands out above all the others.

A brain is capable to do mental calculations just like the computer does, from the top down, as dictated by brain’s highest executive structures. Since, our biological brain, which has a distinctive construction, can also perform calculations from bottom up. This approach, single neurons ignite in a different fashion, without consulting for the directions from an executive but with valuable inputs from the brain’s centers which man emotions. That kind of approach is non-linear and can produce ideas that seem out of the box and would not have resulted from the step-by-step advancement of analytical thinking.

Change is constant:

Our brain has the ability use elastic thinking and it’s nothing new for it. The brain just needs practice and an understanding of the bottom-up mechanism to control any challenges we face in our personal and professional lives.