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Beginners mind guide How to Adopt a Beginner ? s Mind to Improve Learning and Creativity Scott Je ?rey How often do you get stuck in a pattern of doing the same things day after day Do you frequently think the same thoughts Maybe you ruminate on the same

How to Adopt a Beginner ? s Mind to Improve Learning and Creativity Scott Je ?rey How often do you get stuck in a pattern of doing the same things day after day Do you frequently think the same thoughts Maybe you ruminate on the same old story lines Are haunted by indecision on the same problems Do you hit up against the same resistance to getting something done Consumed by various cognitive biases and limiting belief systems your range of possibilities can quickly shrink to a restrictive few In this state you have virtually no creativity to access Even though you may not realize it your world gets relatively small Why is this phenomenon common and what can you do to break this pattern The Gift of Divergent Thinking In his popular TED Talk Do Schools Kill Creativity as well as his Changing Education Paradigms creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson sheds light on a primary source of our crisis in creativity Robinson explains that divergent thinking ?? the ability to see many possible answers to a question ??is a fundamental attribute of creativity One way researchers evaluate divergent thinking in individuals is by the number of answers they give to questions like How many uses are there for a shoe Or how many uses can you think of for a paper clip Most people might o ?er to answers others can divine closer to Psychologists classify these latter folks as geniuses at divergent thinking The Decline of Genius In a s tudy participants received these types of questions All of the participants were around ?ve- year-olds How many of them scored at the genius level A whopping percent ? S cott Je ?rey CThe researchers tracked these same students ?ves years later Now only percent scored as high Then another ?ve years later now at age only percent reached the genius level Approximately adults took the same test How many scored at the genius level A paltry percent This research is a wake-up call for those of us who have children but what about you What can you as an adult do to bring back the innate genius When Your Cup is Full Robinson attributes this alarming drop in genius over a -year period to the educating process There is one answer to a problem the system instructed us And we recite that one answer in class and on examinations To make matters worse we were often humiliated when we didn ? t know their one answer This ??educating ? process conditioned us with what psychologists call functional ?xedness ??looking at a problem from a familiar viewpoint With functional ?xedness it ? s as if a mental block hinders our ability to consider news ways of looking at things This dynamic is reminiscent of a Zen parable A student comes to a famous Zen master and asks for instruction in the way of Zen Buddhism The master begins to discuss several topics of Buddhism like emptiness and meditation But