Monday, March 19, 2007

How to Brainstorm Quickly and Efficiently

When the average human tries to think about a specific topic for a long period of time, he or she will often be faced with problems of concentration. If you try it, you will find that your mind often wanders to other topics that you are not trying to deal with. Brainstorming is a very exact science, and by altering a few things in your environment, you can become the thinking machine that you need to be. Just follow some of these proven brainstorming tips, and hopefully you will be able to get yourself in to the mental condition you need to be in to solve your problem.

There are two reasons why you would brainstorm. The first is to think of the best approach to a problem that is facing you. The second is to think of some sort of creative direction for something that isn’t quite as urgent. You will find that the urgency of having a problem to solve will often lead to much more productive brainstorming sessions, and more ideas being written down. Either way, it doesn’t hurt to be alone with your thoughts and try to come up with some things that could help you out.

You should never go into a brainstorming session with some sort of stress on your mind. If you’re worried about meeting a deadline or getting something done, you will be more likely to stop the creative flow within your brain. So get everything done before you try to brainstorm, or at least do your best to push it out of your mind. This will help free up more of your brain to devote to the question at hand. It also helps to get yourself to a completely solitary place in which you can do your brainstorming without being disturbed by things that are outside of your own mind.

The number one thing you can do to increase your brainstorming power is to free your brain from thinking about other issues. Think of your brain as a computer. If the computer is busy running one process that is eating up all of its computational power, it won’t be able to devote its full strength to running the important programs.

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