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Problem Solving
Computers are growing more powerful and more capable, but everything has limits
The right questions are those sparked from the joy of discovery.
By developing skills like divergent thinking and collaboration in the workforce, creativity training has the potential to unlock revolutionary ideas.
Find it easier to sort out your friends' problems than your own? This paradox is for you.
Solving difficult visual puzzles seems to help the brain "rewire" itself by forming new neural pathways.
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How to defeat debaters who deal in distractions, according to a two-time world debate champion.
But they're still lovable.
Ada Lovelace’s skills with language, music, and needlepoint all contributed to her pioneering work in computing.
From honing the art of perception to checking cognitive biases, here are a few techniques employees can learn in critical thinking training.
A Cambridge Ph.D. student has solved a grammatical problem that has befuddled Sanskrit scholars since the 5th century BC.
For college students, it's the early afternoon.
Retired astronaut Ron Garan believes that before we can begin solving our problems, we must understand our interrelatedness through the "orbital perspective."
ChatGPT's capabilities are astonishing.
Wizbang innovations capture the public’s imagination, but thoughtful, incremental development is often more valuable to those in need.
Find your wallet or keys — or a nuclear submarine.
Maybe the brain isn't "classical" after all.
You don't have to be an emperor to apply these rules to daily living.
By challenging your preconceptions, art offers a framework by which you can solve problems.
It's literally the one and only trick that separates top-notch physicists from crackpots, dropouts, and those who can't cut the mustard.
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Don’t take the prodigy pathway. Become a broad thinker instead.
Innovation training encourages the kind of creativity and problem solving that can lead to breakthroughs in business.
Questioning isn't just a way to get the right answer — it's also a means for sustaining relationships and creative thinking.
Summit Public Schools take a radically different approach to education. And it's working.
Stand Together
Could anyone still meet the Theoretical Minimum?
Peer coaching can play a key role in building resilient, high-performing teams, while allowing remote workers to connect with one another from afar.
Your inner voice can be the devil on your shoulder or the angel. It depends on where your focus lies.
Elastic thinking can reveal the assumptions that hamstring our ability to solve seemingly intractable problems.
You've spent almost a decade gaining extremely specialized skills. But that's ok; your value is greater than you realize.
Inflection points veer life in unexpected directions. While unnerving, they provide opportunities for those who can navigate them.