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How
shifts in Perception Expand Understanding
I'm
reminded of my high school teacher who often said, "Now,
this is going to be hard - you might have to think." It's
the same situation here. In the following few paragraphs, I'll
describe how a computer program that uses your high-level
thinking processes can increase your creativity, insight, and
problem-solving skills. These benefits depend on your ability to
collect and organize information, as well as your willingness to
shift your viewpoints to gain new perspectives.
Your
mind contains an automatic pattern processor that instantly
matches every pattern from your five senses with patterns that
are stored in your memory. Anything unfamiliar immediately comes
forward to your conscious attention. |
| Your mind is like a self-organizing
database |
To
draw an analogy to the computer world, your mind is like a
self-organizing computer database. It automatically acquires a
quantity of information, organizes it, integrates it with
existing data, makes associative links, builds multiple
retrieval keys, and flags unfamiliar observations for display or
comment. This automatic system can select from among your
perceptions, however, which may limit the amount of information
you can use for insight, creativity, and problem solving.
Most
decisions do not use complex academic thought processes such as
symbolic logic, mathematical analysis, or scientific reasoning.
If you have good information and you have organized it well,
most mental processes simply amount to picking the best option
from a group of many choices. |
| Einstein's
thought
experiments |
The
MaxThink thought processor is a computer program that gives you
the structure and commands you need to organize and evaluate
information. The commands include all higher-level thinking
processes: grouping, sorting, analyzing, synthesizing, revising,
prioritizing, and evaluating information - within list, outline,
and text formats.
The
brilliant thinker Albert Einstein used the concept
of
thought experiments to develop his famous theories. He slightly
extended the relationships of information with each successive
mental experiment to discover the limits of existing theories
and to create important new ones. In similar ways, careful
mental exploration of the boundaries, limits, and relationships
of either business or personal information can also produce
fundamental new insights and understanding.
Just
as Einstein used gradual shifts in viewpoint as a way to test
his understanding, MaxThink also lets you purposely shift your
perspectives to gain as much information as possible. It allows
you to pose simple questions about the completeness,
consequences, purposes, relationships, and importance of your
information, which enables you to shift your viewpoints to
bypass your current perceptions and attain additional insights. |
| Includes
60
practical, thought processes |
The
MaxThink program includes more than 60 practical,
thought-provoking processes to shift your perceptions in any
mental endeavor. These thought modules include many ways to
expand thinking, verify the completeness of information, and
analyze the thinking of other people. Also included are ways to
stimulate creative thinking, maximize the understanding of
information, and analyze plans for action.
Once
they are familiar with these processes that let them shift their
viewpoints, the users of MaxThink can approach problem-solving
tasks and creative-thinking situations with increased insights
into the management of their thinking skills. For active users
of the MaxThink program, the shifting of perspective becomes a
natural talent as this pattern of thinking merges with the
automatic processes of the brain. This process is central in
enhancing insight, creativity, and discovery thinking, at the
computer or away from it. |
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