How to Awaken & Enhance Your Analytical Problem-Solving Mind

Creativity. The side of the brain you use for problems where past experience just doesn't cut it (probably most of them). How do you train yourself to pump out new and useful ideas at ludicrous speed? Find out in this video!

enjoy the word search, btw

Sources (a formidable list this time):

Music (not in order, I will always be lazy):

Local Forecast - Slower by Kevin MacLeod
License: [yt dislikes this link, removed]

Dreams by Bensound

Sthlm Sunset by Ehrling
(not exactly sure how to credit, the link is dead)

Sunset On Terra by HYBRID V (Creative Commons License)

This Is For You (Prod. by Lukrembo)

Timestamps
00:00 Intro
01:05 About me
01:27 What is creative problem-solving?
02:36 How does creativity work?
06:25 The types of creativity (& usage)
09:26 A live example - how I made this video
10:35 How can we improve creativity?
11:00 Improving creativity: short-term
16:10 Improving creativity: long-term
19:48 About IQ
21:30 Conclusion

[ColinGalen]

Okay, a clarification. What I meant by "studying for IQ tests" is not that you can increase your inherent intelligence that way - that, by definition, is a contradiction. Of course the score itself will be meaningless. All I wanted to say is that anything seemingly controlled by IQ - even the test that is specifically designed to measure IQ - can be offset with some hard work thrown in. I am claiming that it's good to live in denial, and I think it's reasonable to do so.

[Haridas]

I am so impressed with your presentation, your intelligence, your brilliance, your humour.
You are an amazing teacher. I am 73 years old and its crazy that I am even listening to this.
I have been studying the neural sciences for 12 years and must admit that I have never heard a more brilliant explanation.
Just love it.

[liondevelops]

Ok bro, one thing I have to tell you, is that you are an amazing teacher. I hope you end up becoming a computer science professor or start selling courses or something. Your teaching style is so easy to understand as well as very entertaining. Thanks for these videos mate!

[scientificmaterialgworl]

Dude i just want you to know that your video on intuition was a game changer for me and it might be the only reason I'm able to save my grades. Thank you so much for your hard work!!!💗

[thp]

- The video discusses how to awaken and enhance the analytical problem-solving mind through scientific understanding of creativity, and not through drug use.
- The definition of creative problem solving is the ability to receive a task or problem and produce a creative solution that is new to you and useful in solving or addressing the problem.
- There are three main parts of the brain that contribute to creativity: the generator, explorer, and filter.
- The generator is an idea factory that generates a bunch of random ideas, both good and bad, that are given to the rest of the brain.
- The explorer takes the ideas from the generator and explores them to see if they have any merit in solving the problem or if they can be learned from.
- The filter filters out bad ideas from the generator before they reach the explorer.
- Both the generator and the filter are mostly automatic, while the explorer is both manual and automatic.
- There is a relationship between the conscious and unconscious parts of the brain, and understanding this relationship can make it easier to figure out how to improve creativity.
- To improve creativity, one can practice generating ideas, exploring them, and filtering out bad ideas.

[shaikan]

Dude, please post these kinds of videos more often. You truly have an amazing gift. Continue sharing your thoughts and wisdom.

[rachitmakhija]

Love this series. Please provide one practical example as well like in the field of maths. Thank you.

[yokoso]

creative problem solving = do creative task, come up with something new, frame that as a problem and exercise creativelly solving

creative is an ability to produce something that is bith novel or original and has utility that valuable to someone

creative process :

use past experience the information that we already know to produce something that we dont know new for experiment

how do creative work scientifically = generatir ab idea factory that generate a bunch of random idea, but many of these ideas are garbage and some are maybe good

generator => filter => explore = find detail, pick the particular idea and focus in a manual and auto way

improve the concious and unconciosiosuly for make better decisions, more usefull details

concious = exploring and filtering
unconciously = generator

more relevant ideas => more correct ideas => more detail ideas

types of creativity :

1. insight when something sits in your mind then suddenly something idea pop up unexpetedly ( unconsiouslly generating the ideas without managing the process ) from active thought, past experience or information, newness

unciciouss => cocncious management to process that idea into creation
concious and uncocious => focus =>problem => solution


type of thinking :

.1 convergent thinking = combining a bunch of different of information, past problems and new problems and do one solution

2. divergent thinking = taking a single of information and generate as many potential solutions

how to create video = come up with various of ideas or a particullar idea unconciuoslly with divergent thinking or convergent thinking with a bit of insight mixed => some ideas are filter out based on which ideas video that perform well and bad performance ideas => explore the ideas through concious explorer awaiting more details with synteshize => focus and bring the ideas into creation

creativity => draft video =>
convergent thinking = research
divergent thinking and insight = add ideas

how to improve creativity = two types

1. short term creativity = optimization creative process to come up with good ideas for some problem
2. long term creativity = optimize your creative brain as a whole to imrpove your creativity

boosting for generator ideas with knowledge
relaxing filter to filter out more ideas that are goox

unleash creativity = write down every ideas that come up no matter how good or bad the ideas, it shutting up the filter, it is for unleash the crazy ideas that doesnt promising at first

the more stuck you are the more you should relax your filter and considering the crazy ideas that doesnt promising at first


Inspiration = problem details, small examples, problem variations, past experiencr, random things around you

if a lot of ideas that are considering not usefull = mental reset and break for generating new ideas

if you can only focus on one task or problem you reduce stress

praticing a certain thing let you improve at that thing

insight => various oppurtunity to show up by solving hard problems
convergent thinking => pattern recognizition, finding common ideas/themes, relating similar problems
divergent => general problem solving

tips for strong generator :

1. train on one problem until you feel tired
2. diversify of problems ( many problems ) and depth ( not many a loteng of problems )
3. if not depth = spend longer, if solving to quickly = go another harder problem, igf taking a long time = spend less time

for filter :

1. for a single problem filter out by come up with correct idea, alternative ideas, wrong ideas, variety of your ideas

[HXED_OwO]

I'm a simple man: new Colin Galen video = I click on the video

[zman]

I love watching videos like this while I’m high, and I am so high right now but so intrigued by your videos! Thank you, kind sir! 😎👍🏼

[shakilkhan]

Please continue live with one shots...
specially for beginners...

prefix sum, dealing with Frequency, two pointers and many useful tools of problem solving...

Thanks

[satjeet]

The brain is super flexible. We have to squeeze it while we can❤

[MohammadAli]

Very well said bro 👍.
I think I'm 7.5/10 in creativity and this video puts all my mental processes on paper.

[sergeyt]

I think you should do more of this, Colin.

Cause when I look at the problem, my mind is just blank.

Like, take 2Sum - if you know the approach, you'll solve it. But if you don't and never done anything similar - get out of here.

[RicardoSilva-duqc]

I'm starting in the dev world and probably this video gonna help me alot, ty man. You're doing a great work for the one who seek this kind of content.

[chronosbat]

I already kind of had a vague idea of some of the stuff in the video but the way you explained them with pictures and structure improved my understanding so much!

[gobi]

I am loving your recent videos, thank you for all the hardwork Colin!

[dazh]

Another great video Colin! These are more important than ever with all of the layoffs sweeping tech right now. One question: how do you balance whether to go deep on an idea or explore a new one? I struggle with this especially when figuring out the optimal solution to a problem, e.g. I'll have a O(nlogn) but I'm not sure whether I should push for the O(n) or if it's even possible.

[learncode]

Thanks for sharing such valuable content please bring more on such topic like [Critical, creative thinking?, how to learn fast? reataintion of information, how to become smart? etc ]

[eshaannilekar]

Hey Colin, like usse vids !
Keep posting more abt exercising and improving brain power, learning how to learn, and general smartness..
Very imp topics but no one talks abt it