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TALK TITLE: A POWERFUL WAY TO AWAKEN YOUR NATURAL CREATIVIY

NAME OF SPEAKER: TIM HARFORD, ECONOMIST

DATE: 2019

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- Slow motion It was thought that making two things at one time was to make
multitasking lets nothing. Therefore, it was accepted that multitasking is useless.
brain create
answers Working simultaneously in different targets is what we should be
- Doing any activity aiming for. Slow motion multitasking, develop different activities
different from your during the day
objectives will help
to star being a Many recognized scientists were working on many objectives within
slow-motion their time. They used to switch topics of their investigations. This
multitasker helped them to find many solutions for their different problems. For
- The more things example, the Eureka moment happened when its discoverer was
you focus on, the doing something else of thinking on his problem.
easier the answers
will appear This way if you focus in some moments and let your subconscious
- Any problem work while you do another activity, will found an answer of your
requires creativity problem.
to be solved
- Let the Albert Einstein when he was thinking of his relativity theory, he was
subconscious work able to find the solution for the creation of solar panels.
while you do
another activity, If you let your brain to focus on another activity, the creative solution
this way the will appear.
answer will appear
as an episode of The moment you let your mind refresh, thanks to making slow
creativity. motion multitasking, such as working on other projects, then your
brain will work without being aware of it and the answer will appear.

Darwin was another slow-motion multitasker example. He worked in

zoology, geology, botany, psychology, and economics. Thanks to
the work on different projects, he was able to find different theories
for every of them.

SUMMARY:
The best way to find the creative answers you need for your problems is to do many projects at
once. The key is to do slow-motion multitasking, it is to say, you are not in a hurry, but you do a
lot of different activities. Thanks to this, your subconscious will work, and the creativity you need
will show up as an answer for the problem. Anybody has this superpower in their brains, so the
only thing you need to do, is take some rest without thinking about your problem.