The Power of Forgetting by Byster Mike

Author:Byster, Mike [Byster, Mike]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
ISBN: 9780307985866
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Published: 2014-03-18T00:00:00+00:00

My developmental delays made it essential for me to do things a tad differently and approach problems or tasks from an unusual angle or perspective. From the time I was a young child, my mother always encouraged me to think “outside the box” and offered me new ways to tackle daily problems. Since my father was good with numbers, everyone assumed I was most like him. Actually, I was a product of both of them, and I couldn’t have gotten to where I am today without that perfect combination. Although my dad could calculate 53 times 7 in his head in seconds, he had no understanding of the mental process involved in the calculation. My mother, who was not naturally gifted with numbers, taught me to take my innate ability with numbers and discover easier ways to do things. She always looked for shortcuts or simpler approaches. She also had a very good sense of humor, so she was able to make learning enjoyable. I think my ability today to blend my dad’s “science” of numbers with my mom’s “art” of making it enjoyable to learn and work the brain is what has allowed me to be so successful.

Constantly thinking outside the box was an important skill I mastered out of necessity when I was young, but it’s never too late to start thinking in this manner. If you’ve never been pressured to think too far out of your box, and you’re an adult hoping to make the most of your life and get further ahead, then there’s no time like the present to pick up this skill and make it a habit. The ability to think outside the box will increasingly become a highly valued asset that separates the people who don’t excel from those who achieve enormous success—that is, those who are prepared to change the world and excited about doing it. These are the people who also happen to find life more fulfilling on a deeply personal level because their minds think in ways that keep them entertained and resourceful when they least expect it. In other words, they rarely get bored.

Thinking outside the box has everything to do with being a productive thinker. The skill allows you to discover novel solutions, become more efficient in everyday tasks, problem-solve more quickly, and ultimately maximize the development of all the other skills outlined in this book. Even your capacity to forget when you need to will depend on your ability to think outside the box. Once this skill becomes second nature, you’ll find that identifying and labeling incoming content to your brain as either important (“retain and remember”) or destined for the trash can is much easier. Which ultimately helps you to make room for more information and have more mental bandwidth to think creatively.

In this chapter I’m going to nudge you to think outside the box in the hope that you can take these mental exercises and open up areas in your mind that encourage you to be more creative.

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