The document discusses developing one's fluid intelligence through motivation and challenging cognitive activities. It emphasizes constantly learning new skills and subjects, even after mastery, to engage both sides of the brain and strengthen creative and problem-solving abilities. Creative thinking is described as making remote connections between concepts by switching between conventional and unconventional thinking.

2. “One must not pursue goals that are easily achieved.
One must develop an instinct for what one can barely achieve
through one’s greatest efforts.”
Albert Einstein

3. Fluid Intelligence (Gf) =
The power behind your ability to learn new things,
and apply that knowledge
to problem-solve new situations

8. Motivation
+
Hard CoreTraining
=
Maximum Cognitive Growth

15. Motivation

17. Always be looking for new activities to engage your mind.
Learn an instrument, a new language. Take an art class.
Learn about a new area of science.
Be a knowledge junkie.

20. As soon as you learn something to the point of mastery,
immediately move on to the next challenging activity.

22. What does it mean to‘think creatively’?

24. FAIL

25. Creative Cognition is:
1. Thinking with BOTH sides of your brain
2. Switching back and forth between conventional
and unconventional thinking
3. Making remote associations between concepts;
‘Zooming in and zooming out’of information
- from convergent to divergent- constantly checking
for relevance and usefulness of the ideas

26. CreativeTeaching Methods
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“-TheEducationalValueofCreativeDisobedience, A. Kuszewski, 2011

27. Learn the same information in multiple formats.
The more ways in which you can conceptualize a problem,
the more learning that takes place.

32. You learn best by teaching others.
Utilize social networks for information sharing.
Start now.