Elastic Thinkers - and Lobsters

Elastic: Flexible Thinking in a Constantly Changing World 

by Leonard Mlodinow

• Capacity to let go of comfortable ideas
• Become accustomed to ambiguity and contradiction
• Rise above conventional mind-sets
• Reframe questions we ask
• Abandon ingrained assumptions
• Rely on imagination as much as logic
• Willing to experiment
• Be tolerant of failure
• Generate and integrate a variety of ideas

Read more at BBC (and learn how lobsters figure in) or check the book out at the library.

Source: Elastic: Flexible Thinking in a Time of Change