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Tracing the Spark of Creative Problem-Solving

By Benedict Carey — 2010

“It’s imagination, it’s inference, it’s guessing; and much of it is happening subconsciously,” said Marcel Danesi, a professor of anthropology.

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Adults Need Recess too. Here’s Why You Should Make Time to Play.

Research has shown that adults, too, have a lot to gain from the act of playing.

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Tolu Ajiboye
2018
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How Mindfulness Can Help Engineers Solve Problems

New research shows that by promoting divergent thinking, mindfulness can help engineers strengthen their ability to generate new ideas, leading to new ways of thinking and better solutions.

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Beth Rieken, Shauna Shapiro, Shannon Gilmartin, Sheri D. Sheppard
2019
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‘I Realized I Don’t Have to Believe My Thoughts’

Our mindfulness practice is not about vanquishing our thoughts. It’s about becoming aware of the process of thinking so that we are not in a trance—lost inside our thoughts.

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Tara Brach
2014
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