Read the text and match the paragraphs to the titles.

Read the text and match the paragraphs to the titles.
a) Visualise!
b) Think metaphorically.
c) Make new combinations.
d) Think in opposites.
e) Prepare yourself for chance.
f) Find new perspectives that no one else has taken before.
g) Form relationships and make unlikely connections.
h) Produce!
THINKING LIKE A GENIUS
quot;Even if youre not a genius, you can use the same strategies as Aristotle and Einstein to improve the power of your creative mind and better manage your future.quot;
The following eight strategies encourage you to think productively, rather than reproductively, in order to arrive at solutions to problems. quot;These strategies are common to the thinking styles of creative geniuses in science, art, and industry throughout history.quot;
Leonardo da Vinci believed that, to gain knowledge about the form of a problem, you begin by learning how to restructure it in many different ways. He felt that the first way he looked at a problem was too biased. Often, the problem itself is reconstructed and becomes a new one.
When Einstein thought through a problem, he always found it necessary to formulate his subject in as many different ways as possible, including using diagrams. He visualised solutions, and believed that words and numbers as such did not play a significant role in his thinking process.
A distinguishing characteristic of genius is productivity. Thomas Edison held 1,093 patents. He guaranteed productivity by giving himself and his assistants idea quotas. In a study of 2,036 scientists throughout history, Dean Keith Simonton of the University of California at Davis found that the most respected scientists produced not only great works, but also many quot;badquot; ones. They werent afraid to fail, or to produce the mediocre in order to arrive at excellence.
The laws of heredity on which the modern science of genetics is based came from the Austrian monk Grego Mendel, who combined mathematics and biology to create a new science. Combine and recombine ideas, images, and thoughts into different combinations, no matter how incongruent or unusual they are.
Da Vinci forced a relationship between the sound of a bell and a stone hitting water. This enabled him to make the connection that sound travels in waves. Samuel Morse invented relay stations for telegraphic signals when observing relay stations for horses.
Physicist Niels Bohr believed, that if you held opposites together, then you suspend your thought, and your mind moves to a new level. His ability to imagine light as both a particle and a wave led to his conception of the complementarity principle. Suspending thought (logic) may allow your mind to create a new form.
Aristotle considered metaphor a sign of genius, and believed that the individual who had the capacity to see resemblances between two separate areas of existence and link them together was a person of special gifts.
Whenever we attempt to do something and fail, we end up doing something else. That is the first principle of creative accident. Failure can be productive only if we do not фокус on it as an unproductive result. Instead: analyse the process, its components, and how you can change them to arrive at other results. Do not ask the question quot;Why have I failed?quot;, but rather quot;What have I done?quot;

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