Meta Patterns & Genius – A Simple Game To Increase A Child’s Intelligence
As a side effect in my life long study of human excellence, genius and creativity, I have discovered ONE particular thinking pattern that makes ALL THE DIFFERENCE in:
– understanding the world
– problem solving
– innovation and creativity
– and even inner harmony.
This is a meta filter which people LEARN, they are NOT born “that way”, and it is a really profound one that makes the difference between a great thinker and someone who isn’t, at the end of the day.
This filter is about whether a person sorts all manner of incoming information by difference, or by similarity.
Fascinatingly, across the board, children’s games are games of “difference”.
Spot the difference; Sesame Street’s “One of these things just doesn’t belong here …”; and many, MANY other strategies across the board and all the educational modalities reward this “sorting by differences”.
The side effect of sorting by difference is to compartmentalise the world...