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Heart-Mind Challenge: Solving Problems Peacefully

By Dalai Lama Center — 2014

The strategies that children and youth use to resolve conflict change as they grow up. Stages of brain development are highly influential to both how children approach conflict and to the kinds of support adults can offer to build skills.

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Creativity Is Your Best Problem-Solving Tool—Here’s How to Harness It

Your success is contingent on your ability to solve problems effectively, and one of the best tools you have for the job is your creativity. But why is creativity so valuable in solving problems, and how can you make the best use of it?

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Timothy Carter
2020
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Tracing the Spark of Creative Problem-Solving

“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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Benedict Carey
2010
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Why Giving Up Is Sometimes the Best Way to Solve a Problem

"The real problem, we finally realized, wasn’t the one we were trying to solve. It was that we were so focused on finding a solution that we never stopped to question whether we should even be doing the thing causing us problems in the first place."

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Tim Herrera
2019
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Are You Solving the Right Problem?

“If I were given one hour to save the planet, I would spend 59 minutes defining the problem and one minute resolving it,” Albert Einstein said.

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Dwayne Spradlin
2012
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Buried by Bad Decisions

Our brains are hard-wired to make poor choices about harm prevention in today's world. But we can fight it.

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Daniel Gilbert
2011
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Patience Is a Superpower

In low seasons, while you sit in the waiting room of life, patience is a superpower. But by adopting these seven mindsets, you can run circles around life’s challenges.

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Michael Pietrzak
2020
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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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For World Meditation Day, Try This Intuition Practice

Through the practice of yoga, you can learn to hear—and follow—your inner guidance.

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Sally Kempton
2007
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