Using our whole brain for two creations

In my last post I discussed about two creations, first creation or mental creation and second creation or physical creation and also problem space and solution space. How do we develop this?

A great deal of research has been conducted for decades on what has come to be called Brain dominance theory. The findings basically indicates that  each hemisphere of the brain – left and right – tends to specialize in and preside over different functions , process different kind of information and deal with different kind of problems. Additionally, people are said to prefer one type of thinking over the other. For example, a person who is "left-brained" is often said to be more logical, analytical, and objective, while a person who is "right-brained" is said to be more intuitive, thoughtful, and subjective.

Some of the abilities that are popularly associated with the right side of the brain include:

Recognizing faces

Expressing emotions

Music

Reading emotions

Color

Images

Intuition

Creativity

The left-side of the brain is considered to be adept at tasks that involve logic, language and analytical thinking. The left-brain is often described as being better at:

Language

Logic

Critical thinking

Numbers

Reasoning

In computer term, right hemisphere works as parallel processing and left hemisphere works as serial processing.

If we use the brain dominance theory as model, it becomes evident that the quality of our first creation is significantly impacted by our ability to use creative right brain. The more we are able to draw upon our right brain capacity, the more fully we will be able to visualize, to synthesize, to transcend time and present circumstances, to project a holistic picture of what we want to do. This is basically working for problem space or for the first creation.

What Does All this Really Mean?

When it comes to improving our visual thinking ability, we must always strive to activate our “whole-brain” learning system to help us solve problems, overcome obstacles and challenges, think more creatively and effectively under different conditions and circumstances.

Framework:

The visual thinking framework provides a platform that will help you to generate better ideas and allow you to solve problems far more effectively. The entire framework is built upon the principles of visual thinking as they apply to problem solving, creativity and idea generation. 

The framework is very much like an onion. You start peeling at the top layer and continue peeling until you reach the core of the onion. At the core, you will have a complete grasp of how to solve your problems and generate ideas using a large variety of visual thinking techniques, strategies, principles and tools.

There are some good videos in ted talk on this area, but I feel story of Jill Bolte Taylor is most touching one…

https://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight#t-356155

Apart from these framework tool, there are many exercises that are great for stimulating the right hemisphere of the brain, few are below

1.       Have a bilateral conversation, means conversation between hemispheres –

For this exercise, take a pencil in your right hand (even if you’re left-handed) and write the question: “How’s it going?” Then switch to your left hand, and write whatever pops up. Your non-dominant hand’s writing will be shaky—that’s okay. The important thing isn’t tidiness; it’s noticing that your twin hemispheres have different personalities.

The right side of the brain, which controls the left hand, will say things you don’t know that you know. It specializes in assessing your physical and mental feelings, and it often offers solutions.

2.       Expand perspective

There are a number of ways to do this. Through the powers of your imagination, you can expand your mind, visualize in rich in details. Involve as many of the sense as you can.

3.       Practice Yoga to clear the Mind

Yoga is useful as it functions on three main points: exercise, breathing, and meditation.

And also you can browse on internet to get many discussions on this area.

~Keep Winning

Madoo

 

The two creation, Mental and Physical

The two creation, Mental and Physical:

All things are created twice – there’s a mental or first creation and there’s a physical or second creation to all things. 

Take the construction of a house, for example. You create or visualize it in every detail before you ever hammer the first nail into place. You work with your mind until you get a clear image of what you want to build. Then you reduce these thoughts to blueprint and then make a construction plan. All these done before earth is touched that is in your first creation. If no, you will have to make expensive changes that may double the cost of your home in second creation.

How do we correlate this TWO CREATIONS in our business execution?

In a project environment, we all are working for a set of requirements defined by our stake holders. In order to understand requirements with clarity and completeness, one should be in “PROBLEM SPACE”. 

A problem space is the area of software engineering where questions on business requirements and business process are asked and answered. AS AN ENGINEER THIS SHOULD BE OUR FIRST CREATION or MENTAL CREATION. 

Only when the problem space explored fully, one should step into solution space. THIS IS OUR SECOND CREATION or PHYSICAL CREATION. 

A solution space is the area of software engineering where solutions to the needs described in the problem space are designed and developed.

Stepping into solution space too soon or overlapping the two spaces give rise to requirements that are not implementation free. 

If you want to execute a project in a very successful way, you clearly define what you are trying to accomplish. You carefully think through the product or service you want to provide in terms of market target, then visualize about financial, research and development, operations, marketing, personnel, physical facilities, team and so on – to meet the objective. Most business failures are due to failure in first creation such as a under capitalization, misunderstanding of the market and requirements or lack of business plan.

Whether we are aware of it or not, whether we are in control of it or not, there is a first creation to every part of our lives. If we do not develop our own self-awareness and become responsible for first creations, we empower other people and circumstances outside our circle of influence to shape much of our lives by default. 

The unique human capacities of self-awareness, imagination and conscience enable us to examine first creations and make it possible for us to take charge of our own first creation to write our own script.

Measure twice, cut once

~Keep Winning

Madoo