Music is a secret exercise in arithmetic of the soul, unaware of its act of counting --Gottfried Leibniz, philosopher and mathematician"Fixing on a number helps me generate ideas, create new options, and crystallise my thoughts," Joanna Young declares. And, she leaped to a challenge of presenting 7 writing tactics in a numbered list. Interestingly the concentration helped her reach 7 unique points to meet that goal. Her mind let go of it once the 7th was complete. Joanna's curiosity led her to question me as to how that might be connected to the brain. You'd be surprised at how many connections play out...
Logical-mathematical Intelligence the math parts of the brain are especially fun for those who think logically or enjoy numbers, according to Ellen Weber. You'd enjoy Ellen's post chock full of blog tips for your math intelligence.
I'm curious, Ellen, as to whether you set a number of tips before you write and how having a number in mind ahead of time impacts your writing. For instance, the math tips include 10 ideas, and you recently posted a challenge to stretch our brains daily in March, which includes 31 suggestions for your readers, as well as the post you developed to list some suggestions for the 22 stressors people face in the course of a day. Do you find that your brain keeps working on these till you hit the magic number like Joanna?
The logical-math part of your brain includes high ability for logical reasoning, predicting probability, organizing, and sequencing as well as numerical dexterity. You'll be surprised with results when you challenge your brain through your math intelligence or any of the others. Here's why...
Puzzles and Challenges: Present your brain with a challenge and your brain steps up to meet it! The human brain thrives on unraveling puzzles and sorting out ambiguities. Recent research shows that your unconscious mind works on the problem...
...a strong Aha! sensation involves minimal meta cognitive (monitoring of one's own thoughts) processes and unconscious restructuring or, better, an automatic, subconscious recombination of information which stands in contrast to conscious mental restructuring which is an attention-demanding process involving executive control. The study shows that it is possible to identify these processes before they reach the level of verbal awareness.In other words the backburner of your mind is warming the answer as you may be working on other tasks. Bursts of insight may come on the spot or take a day or more... Your brain can reach flow as you compose from a series of "aha's"...
Flow: Flow's described as "the state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter; the experience itself is so enjoyable that people will do it even at great cost, for the sheer sake of doing it," according to psychologist, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, who wrote Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. Csikszentmihalyi theorizes that best moments in life occur when the body and mind are stretched to the limit in an effort to accomplish something both difficult and worthwhile. That's likely why you stayed on the path to meet your quest, Joanna.
Invention: When people launch a project they generally follow routines, and in this case, approaches you take to write. Your brain first retrieves methods and schemas from your basal ganglia whenever you approach a task similar to many you've completed in past. Take driving for instance... You build many different skills which arise to meet different road conditions. However, if you're on black ice for the first time, you remember what you read in the driver's manual, and you're forced to use something novel.
On the other hand, notice the difference when you work out of novelty, as in your new approach to focus on a number, Joanna. You tap into your brain's working memory and Ellen Weber explains that in everyday language...
When the brain registers an idea it goes into the short term or working memory. Think of your working memory as a fine wine glass where new wine is poured daily. Your mind’s wine includes exciting ideas you hear, discussions you have or insights you garner from business blogs … or maybe it’s just a reflection beside a quiet stream. Since only a few ounces of wine fit into your wine glass… I mean your working memory … then yesterday’s wine will get washed out or so diluted by today’s. You’ll no longer feel excited by an idea’s possibilities for change unless you move it into action and lead it forward with rewards for excellence. It’s how the brain works to lose or gain business … each time you pour in new ideas or actions that are unrelated to the old ones there, the older ones are replaced. It’s also why multi-tasking may not be a good solution unless these tasks relate to change ideas and actions already in your working memory.
No doubt, Joanna, you desired to use novelty as you wrote because you wanted different outcomes. Not too surprisingly, your brain worked on your challenge till you generated ideas, created new options and crystallized thoughts for the seven ways that numbers help you write. In my next blog I'm giving myself a number challenge so I can go more in depth as you did.
Joanna, your theme of writing leaps and bounds, is something we can all have fun with! The music of your soul comes forth with many melodies from which we all learn.
Here are additional ways for blogging through your intelligences...
Blog Tips for your Math Intelligence
Blog Tips for Your Musical Intelligence
Blog Tips for Your Spatial Intelligence
Blog Tips From Your Intrapersonal Intelligence
Blog Tips from Your Interpersonal Intelligence
Blog From Your Linguistic Intelligence
Blogging From Your Naturalistic Intelligence
Try just one and see the difference in your next blog!
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