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The Net and the Butterfly
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The Net and the Butterfly

The Art and Practice of Breakthrough Thinking

Olivia Fox Cabane and Judah Pollack
Portfolio, 2017

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8

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  • Applicable
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Recommendation

New understanding of how the brain works can help you achieve innovative thinking. Learn to switch between your task-oriented “executive network” and your intuitive, associative “default network” to generate unexpected connections. Recommending mindfulness and self-compassion, academicians Olivia Fox Cabane and Judah Pollack provide practical methods you can use to defeat self-criticism and fear of failure so that you can solve problems and ignite your creativity.

Take-Aways

  • Breakthroughs come in four types: “eureka,” “metaphorical,” “intuitive” and “paradigm.”
  • Breakthroughs result from switching between two brain states – the focused executive network and the associative default network.
  • To access the brain’s default network, mentally let it wander in its natural, unfocused background state.

About the Authors

Olivia Fox Cabane, the best-selling author of The Charisma Myth, was director of innovative leadership at Stanford’s StartX, where Judah Pollack was also a faculty member. He lectures at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.

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