EnPiphanies, as a rule, amaze with lightning -fast bolts – outbreaks of understanding are expressed that change, as a person sees peace or himself. Ebenezer Skrouga in A Christmas Realizing that he was stingy all his life and should spread a little Christmas mood, or Walter White in Breaking BadRealizing that he became those who scare others, and not frightened. These moments of a-ha, as a rule, are remembered, change life and pregnant with aim. And they often seem to come out of nowhere, without warning.
But what if we could grow insights, instead of waiting for them to arrive? The team of researchers from Saint -Luis, Houston and the Netherlands intended to answer this question, and to help they turned to this exquisite form of escape, known as a dream – the practice of resolving idle thoughts in order to tremble through the mind, giving the imagination of separation from the present reality. Dreaming He was the subject of intensive curiosity and research since the moment Freud’s time is consistently connected with creativity.
“When you dream, you are likely to release assumptions – including useless or obsolete beliefs about yourself – and think about a flexible and innovative way,” said Eric Dyne, the author of the study and professor of organizational behavior in the Business of Olina at the University of Washington in Saint -Louis, in statementThe field “And this opens the door to experience strong insights.”
Dean and his colleagues were especially interested in the types of insights that are associated with career ways, so they pulled out their participants in training from students of business schools and graduates. First, they conducted a review 155 MBA students and graduates from a private university in the United States and found that 63 percent of them experienced the work related to work during their lives, and that these transforming ideas vary in force.
Then they conducted Legacy Workshop with 149 MBA students from a variety of European business school, asking them to think about the legacy that they would like to leave. They also asked them to rethink their “self -defense” and allow them to wander their minds. In the third study division, they collected answers from 109 students of business schools of three different universities – two in Europe and one in North America – who took part in coaching sessions that encouraged a reflective dream. In these second and third studies, the team monitored insights in real time, based on self -reports, which were confirmed by expert appraisers.
They found that a kind of playful mind, wandering, sometimes known as a “dream of solving problems”, is especially suitable for calling powerful insights. Researchers defined this dream to solve problems as “figuratively interaction with [one’s] Psychological tension and firmly focusing on their resolution. ” They reported their Conclusions In the new article in Management JournalField
“Mind bladering is a particularly useful way to solve problems, because it redirects attention from existing solutions and helps people participate in creative thinking, entertaining completely new opportunities,” said Marcus Baer, vice -decans in executive education in Olina and professor of organizational behavior, in statementThe field “in comparison with the work on problems in a more intentional, formally, solving problems dreams of being especially free and playful.”
The team found that not everyone is prone to solving problems that solve dreams. This requires a special type of personality: while most people dream and allow their minds to wander, according to estimates, it occupies about half of the awake hours of most people-the course of these problems during these mental shades.
People who participate in a focused dream tend to experience higher levels of disappointment than the majority, when they reach a dead end over narrow, complex problems that stimulate real coercion to solve these problems. Their coercion outweighs any potential discomfort in changing existing beliefs or even the basic concepts of oneself.
Of course, regardless of how powerful our insights shake us, they can disappear over time. Or, like memories, they can be reviewed. This is what Dane and his colleagues want to study further: whether some insights have grown in significance, since nostalgia blooms with age – and why.
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