Mental Creativity

Albert Einstein once said that creativity was the ability to “raise new questions, new possibilities, to regards old problems from a new angle …..”
Now here is a simple test for you try out on your own. Grab a piece of paper and a pen and now set your stop watch for 1 minute.

Answer the following question with as many examples as you can possibly think.

Q. What can you do with a coat hanger?

A. ……………………………………………………………

The question posed has been designed to evaluate the mental creativity of your responses. Most people will generate responses according to traditional lines of thoughts based upon familiar experiences and mental data that are drawn from real-life experiences. This is the most basic foundation of mental response drawn from first hand experiences such as “II would hang my coat in the closet” … “I would place my shirt inside” However what we want to analyze is the ability to respond to the question from the perspective of looking outside the box. This means looking for original unique strains of thought that do not originate from the traditional norm of experiences that surround the problem. So let us pose the question all over again with a view to looking for different and original answers: Q. What can you do with a coat hanger? A. Cut it into shreds and use it as a tooth-pick! …. Twist it into a tree shape and stick it in a plant pot for my vine … bend it into a u-shape and use I to scratch my back … stand it upright and stick my post-it memos for a reminder display … and so on and so forth … Essentially every problem we face will generate automatic responses drawn from our own experiences in life …. However, where the creative mind comes into play is where we can take those usual automatic responses and go one step beyond and out of the box to ask a whole new set of questions and answers that stretches the known parameters of experience into the unknown and infinite world of limitless possibilities.

So how can I start applying my new brainstorming techniques and apply them to the questions that surround my world?

Here are 3 important steps that you can take to change your mindset from the ingrained traditional mental response to the new brainstorming technique that can create new ideas out of the stale and old questions.

1. Challenge the factual problem in front of you. Don’t be satisfied with what answers you already have in your hands.
2. Open your mind and expand your searches for new ideas and solutions to the existing problem by tearing down any preconception in your mind.
3. Reach out to infinity and expand your consciousness into a new realm of infinite understanding.

No longer is a spade a spade in understanding the nature of the world around you and the trading arena where price action can move in any direction with the slightest breeze of information as much as the flapping of the wings of a butterfly in Tokyo can cause a tsunami in San Francisco. Open your minds.

Yours sincerely

TraderSynergyBrain