Feb
26
2007
Thinking Like a Genius
Categories: Innovation, Psychology
“Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.”
- A. Einstein
- A. Einstein
You too can think like a genius. So says Michael Michalko, a “creative thinking expert” and author.
The non-profit educational public service Study Guides and Strategies has done a fantastic adaptation of Michalko’s article, “Thinking like a genius: eight strategies used by the supercreative, from Aristotle and Leonardo to Einstein and Edison” (the full version is also available in electronic format for download 
To whet your appetite, the eight strategies are:
- Look at problems in many different ways, and find new perspectives that no one else has taken (or no one else has publicized!)
- Visualize!
- Produce! A distinguishing characteristic of genius is productivity.
- Make novel combinations. Combine, and recombine, ideas, images, and thoughts into different combinations no matter how incongruent or unusual.
- Form relationships; make connections between dissimilar subjects.
- Think in opposites.
- Think metaphorically.
- Prepare yourself for chance.
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