Use It or Lose It Expert – Scott Barry Kaufman | Brain Games

if we can keep our minds open in a sense
that whenever we encounter a new task we
don’t immediately zone in as much as
possible to the immediate goal but we
keep our minds open to the fact that
sometimes the most obvious solution less
obvious path is not the best path
practical world changing creativity
requires both your ability to generate
ideas generate possibility but also very
much requires your ability to take those
the best ideas and be able to sort out
the good ones and bad ones which ones
are worth pursuing and and using a very
focused attention so there’s there’s
various stages open stage and there’s
this more clothes stage more more
focused stage I would say the most
important thing is is shifting the
spotlight of attention that is within us
to to that broad network so it’s like
opening up that spotlight of attention
okay which is narrow we need to have the
patience to allow ourselves to get to
that state because we’re most the time
we live in the in the world of
prefrontal cortex where we have we have
the severe goal-directed things what we
need to get out of a goal-directed
States and we have to be patient to
allow ourselves to get out of it