Elegant Solution - Avoiding the Seven Fatal Thinking Flaws

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Find Your Elegant Solution, which means achieving maximum effect with minimum means, by avoiding the Seven Fatal Thinking Flaws. This is not the means of reaching your elegant solution, but it is absolutely part of the equation. From Neuroscience Studies, it confirms that the seven flaws hinder your problem-solving thinking problems:

1. The Misleading Tendency to Leap – Characterized by being Mechanically Automatic, Being Overly Instinctive, Jumping to Conclusions, and Too Much Fast Thinking. Note fast thinking is good for routines. For complex problems, it is detrimental.
2. The Misleading Tendency to Stay Fixated – Characterized by Fixation, Mental Rigidity, Blind Spots, Biases, and Paradigms (Patterns). Can lead to suboptimal decisions.
   1. Hebb’s Law – Neurons that fire together and working, they are wiring together. This circuit becomes stronger each time. Examples of this at work are muscle memory or habits.
   2. Quantum Zeno Effect – The glue of the wiring occurring in the Hebb’s law process. This is when the brain is “hard-wired”.
3. The Misleading Tendency to Overthink - The opposite spectrum of Leaping. Characterized by overcomplication.
4. The Mediocrity Tendency to be Satisficing - A combination of satisfying and sacrificing, characterized by “Bounded Rationality”. It reduces some stress, is efficient for routines, but for complex situations, it will lead to sub-optimal decisions.
5. The Mediocrity Tendency to Downgrade - Backing off a goal, or backward revision. Characterized as a pre-emptive surrender.
6. The Mindlessness Tendency for NIH – Stands for “Not Invented Here” thinking, which is characterized by visceral aversions to concepts plus automatic negative perceptions. Moreover, there are implications of reinventing the wheel, because a lack of trust.
7. The Mindlessness Tendency to Self-Censor - the antithesis of collaboration, holding back good practices. Characterized by rejecting, denying, and silencing ideas before they are born. Relevant to this point, Pablo Picasso once said, “Good Artists Copy, GREAT Artists Steal”.