Most of thinking of this kind needs to follow trained and logical patterns. Sometimes logical and predictable thinking is not enough. When that time comes, you need to make your brain creative. This is difficult: it just means using that half of the brain that most people ignore.
Logic is situated in the left –hand side of the brain and drives the right –hand side of the body; creativity is situated in the right –hand side of the brain and drives the left –hands side of the body. Quite commonly, creative people show this by writing with their left hands.
During logical thinking, the problem is fed into the brain through the eyes or ears and the problem-solving patterns are already awaiting it. Next, the logical section of the brain compares the problem with past experience and knowledge and the brain suggests the answer. Here are some facts about logical thinking:
*Logical thinking chooses between one thinking and another. It is a binary system. A right or wrong answer will come forth. The best way of looking at things is the right way of looking at things and vice versa.
*Logical thinking must be right at very stage. Each step must be fully justified and lead to the next step. Each step must be correct for the lead to take place.
*Logical thinking is analytical. It needs to know where the idea came from; what the beck ground to the idea is. It tries to find reasons to reject an idea, to eliminate he ideas one by one so as to arrive at the solution.
*The stages of logical thinking follow one from another in order. One stage has to be completed in order to reach the next. There has to be a reason for saying or doing something before it is said or done. Any gaps in the system mean discomfort and a concern to pause and fill them.
*Logical thinking concentrates on the relevance of the thoughts. Any thinking that is not relevant is rejected.
*Logical thinking moves in the most predictable direction. It seeks proof all the time and proof comes from following well worn and proven patterns. There is no reason to seek out new themselves unable to help.
*Logical thinking is a closed procedure. The end product of logical thinking is to produce an answer.
For all these reasons, logical thinking is right for 95 percent of thinking situations. If you are to succeed in 100 percent of thinking situations, logical thinking needs to be backed up by creative thinking. On its own, logical thinking is wrong and restrictive in 5 percent of thinking situations.
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