Achieve Business Success With Creative Insight – a Unique Life Skill You Can Gain From an Unusual Source

Achieve Business success with Creative Insight – a Unique Life Skill you can gain from an Unusual Source.

By Dennis Fisher

Practical experience – the result of years of training in a particular field – is often an important factor in business success.  But there are occasions when it can prove to be a disadvantage in the highly competitive business world.

Years of experience, know-how and familiarity doing the same task over and over again often leads to rigidity in thinking and a lack of creativity in approaching problems from a new, original and entirely different perspective. 

One often hears people, who have been involved in the same line of for a long time boast about their expertise of in the following manner:

 ”There’s nothing anyone can teach me about this job. I really know what I’m doing. I’ve had twenty years experience”.

But what this often means is that this particular person has had one year experience twenty times!

Instead of learning by experience, the person has repeated the process of dealing with a situation in the identical manner over and over again. Psychologists define learning as the process by which changes in behavior are brought about as a result of experience or practice

Experience and practice; trial and error; are important processes. But changes can also be brought about by another process. It is creative insight.

WHAT IS CREATIVE INSIGHT?

It is the ability to solve a problem by understanding the relationship between the problem and various objects or situations that may appear to be completely unrelated.

An important landmark breakthrough in animal psychology dramatizes this concept of creative insight and insight learning.

Professor Kohler in his important work “The Mentality of Apes” gave an account of his study of the mind of the chimpanzee in Teneriffe, in which he demonstrated that apes vary as much in intelligence as human beings.

The apes were given the task of trying to reach bananas, placed high above their heads. When the sticks were placed close to the bananas most of the chimpanzees had no difficulty in using them to drag down the bananas.

But when they were placed a good distance away from the bananas, only some of the chimpanzees were able to understand there was a relationship between the end goal of the bananas and a method which would enable them to reach their goal.

The sticks had to be perceived in a special way before they could be used effectively. The sticks had to be perceived as a tool, a step or link in the process of achieving the objective. A few chimpanzees were able to demonstrate an even more striking example of creative insight.

The bananas were placed so high above the head of the chimpanzee that one stick alone would not be long enough reach them. Two sticks were placed at a fair distance from the chimpanzees. One stick was a little narrower than the other and there was an opening in the thicker stick that made it possible for one stick to be inserted in the other to create one long stick.

The apes first tried to attach one stick to the other but then abandoned the attempt after finding they continually fell apart. Finally, as if suddenly inspired by a flash of genius – in effect creative insight – the apes discovered that it would be possible to insert one stick into the other to achieve their objective. It was not so much a process of trial and error as a demonstration of creative insight.

If creative insight a faculty that apes were able to develop, then clearly it is a skill that can be of even greater benefit to humans.

CAN THIS FACULTY OF “CREATIVE INSIGHT” BE LEARNED AND DEVELOPED?

Certainly.   Psychologists have spent many years identifying and studying the life skills people need in order to become successful, not only in business but in many other different areas.

They have studied every personality feature and characteristic of people who have distinguished themselves in different fields and firmly believe it is possible to develop similar effective life skills.

And one of the most important life skills is the ability to make use of creative insight.

In order to be successful in business you cannot rely on luck. Neither can you rely completely on years of practical experience. In order to be successful you have learn to do things in a new, original and creative way. You have to make use of your creative imagination – your creative insight.

There are courses available to that can help you acquire this important life skill that can make the difference between success and failure.

The author, Dennis Fisher is managing director of financial and investment Companies. In addition to his involvement in many different fields of business, his interests include an in-depth study of various schools of practical psychology, with particular emphasis on the development of creativity, creative intelligence and creative insight. To find out more about the methods he advocates, visit his website http://www.creativemindpowers.com

 

Achieve Business success with creative insight – a unique life skill you can gain from an unusual source.

By Dennis Fisher

Practical experience – the result of years of training in a particular field – is often an important factor in business success.  But there are occasions when it can prove to be a disadvantage in the highly competitive business world.

Years of experience, know-how and familiarity doing the same task over and over again often leads to rigidity in thinking and a lack of creativity in approaching problems from a new, original and entirely different perspective. 

One often hears people, who have been involved in the same line of for a long time boast about their expertise of in the following manner:

 ”There’s nothing anyone can teach me about this job. I really know what I’m doing. I’ve had twenty years experience”.

But what this often means is that this particular person has had one year experience twenty times!

Instead of learning by experience, the person has repeated the process of dealing with a situation in the identical manner over and over again. Psychologists define learning as the process by which changes in behavior are brought about as a result of experience or practice

Experience and practice; trial and error; are important processes. But changes can also be brought about by another process. It is creative insight.

WHAT IS CREATIVE INSIGHT?

It is the ability to solve a problem by understanding the relationship between the problem and various objects or situations that may appear to be completely unrelated.

An important landmark breakthrough in animal psychology dramatizes this concept of creative insight and insight learning.

Professor Kohler in his important work “The Mentality of Apes” gave an account of his study of the mind of the chimpanzee in Teneriffe, in which he demonstrated that apes vary as much in intelligence as human beings.

The apes were given the task of trying to reach bananas, placed high above their heads. When the sticks were placed close to the bananas most of the chimpanzees had no difficulty in using them to drag down the bananas.

But when they were placed a good distance away from the bananas, only some of the chimpanzees were able to understand there was a relationship between the end goal of the bananas and a method which would enable them to reach their goal.

The sticks had to be perceived in a special way before they could be used effectively. The sticks had to be perceived as a tool, a step or link in the process of achieving the objective. A few chimpanzees were able to demonstrate an even more striking example of creative insight.

The bananas were placed so high above the head of the chimpanzee that one stick alone would not be long enough reach them. Two sticks were placed at a fair distance from the chimpanzees. One stick was a little narrower than the other and there was an opening in the thicker stick that made it possible for one stick to be inserted in the other to create one long stick.

The apes first tried to attach one stick to the other but then abandoned the attempt after finding they continually fell apart. Finally, as if suddenly inspired by a flash of genius – in effect creative insight – the apes discovered that it would be possible to insert one stick into the other to achieve their objective. It was not so much a process of trial and error as a demonstration of creative insight.

If creative insight a faculty that apes were able to develop, then clearly it is a skill that can be of even greater benefit to humans.

CAN THIS FACULTY OF “CREATIVE INSIGHT” BE LEARNED AND DEVELOPED?

Certainly.   Psychologists have spent many years identifying and studying the life skills people need in order to become successful, not only in business but in many other different areas.

They have studied every personality feature and characteristic of people who have distinguished themselves in different fields and firmly believe it is possible to develop similar effective life skills.

And one of the most important life skills is the ability to make use of creative insight.

In order to be successful in business you cannot rely on luck. Neither can you rely completely on years of practical experience. In order to be successful you have learn to do things in a new, original and creative way. You have to make use of your creative imagination – your creative insight.

There are courses available to that can help you acquire this important life skill that can make the difference between success and failure.



The author, Dennis Fisher is managing director of financial and investment Companies. In addition to his involvement in many different fields of business, his interests include an in-depth study of various schools of practical psychology, with particular emphasis on the development of creativity, creative intelligence and creative insight. To find out more about the methods he advocates, visit his website http://www.creativemindpowers.com