One of most powerful forms of mindfulness is awareness of sound. We tend to tune out noise of our lives in order to concentrate on tasks at hand.

In fact, we may get so used to a particular sound that we don’t notice it until it’s gone—like a television that is turned off, or traffic that stops outside your home, or your neighbor’s lawn mower or stereo that is suddenly silent.

We notice when it starts, we intentionally shut it out, and then notice it once again when it stops.

Everyone who hears has a healthy serving of what is called musical intelligence. It isn’t limited to actual music, however—it is our recognition and understanding of pitch, tone, quality, length, volume and source of sounds around us.

Now, some of us might have perfect pitch, knowing instantly that note we hear is a middle C. Others might have a very well-developed sense of tone quality—noting difference between a middle C played on a piano or a flute, or even same note sung by two different people. And some of us might consider ourselves completely hopeless as musicians while having an encyclopedic memory for song lyrics, guitar riffs, or even songs of birds.

The great news is that, no matter where we stand on music smarts scale, we each have capacity to increase our musical intelligence. Better yet, by focusing on selected sounds as triggers for mindfulness, we can sharpen our awareness and increase our enjoyment of world around us at same time.

Geniuses are just ordinary people who stumble on a knack or way of thinking that enables them to think and learn more effectively and creatively than others.

When you closely examine how “geniuses” like Newton or Archimedes thought, they didn’t simply sit under trees or in baths until their enlightenment: they used some very powerful and practical tools to create order out of their thoughts and find answers to problems that few people ever thought to solve.

In this article, we explore some of tools great thinkers used. They are as applicable now as they were then. These techniques will help you to: ·Clear your head when faced with a challenging problem. ·Generate more than one workable solution to your problem. ·Think creatively. ·Think productively instead of re-productively. ·Give you clear methodology that will make solving problems straight forward and stress free.

First, here are some of common factors of world’s great thinkers: ·The idea generation was in pictures and images rather than words. Einstein and da Vinci drew diagrams instead of writing words and sentences. ·Their thinking was unrestrained; nothing was consigned to bin until it had been fully investigated. ·They treated thoughts as things. ·Ideas were explored using association. ·They looked at ideas from different perspectives. ·They were prolific and recorded everything. ·They fuelled their imaginations with knowledge. ·Their thinking was focused. ·They were passionate and determined about discovery. ·They made mistakes but instead of seeing them as failures, saw them instead as “ways of how not to do it”. ·They saw potential in everything. ·They saw mistakes and unexpected surprise results as valuable opportunities to learn from. ·They never gave up.

Consider this definition of "problem": a problem is an external event perceived as a mental, physical, emotional or intellectual threat to individual/s concerned. Chances are, your problem only became “a problem” when you became personally involved causing your perception of an event to shift; before that, it was just an event, when you perceived that you were potentially threatened by it, event became a problem.

Everything (including problems) starts in your head. Using your imagination and thinking processes constructively while you solve problems gives your mind “stuff” it needs to be productive (create new solutions) as distinct from re-productive (create more of old which is what probably landed you with problem in first place).

One of most reliable ways of solving a problem is “systems” strategy.

This method does not allow you to add complications that do not exist and it ensures facts are gathered without hindrance of destructive emotion (the first indication that an event is turning into a problem).

Seeing entire system (i.e. problem and everything associated with it) enhances insight into a problem and allows you to deal with real issue. Most often, when solutions don’t work it’s because they are solution to a perceived problem, not real one.

Genius is simply a way of thinking.

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