THIRTEEN

How Your Mind Works

Your mind is a wondrous thing, an incredible processor of information that you take in through all your senses. As it happens, each person has a dominant thinking style, a specific way of processing information, taking it in, and using it in the best ways possible.

There are three basic types of information processing used in creative thinking:

Visual

Visual people think in terms of pictures, written words, images, charts, and graphs. They have to “see” the problem or information in order to understand it. They will say, “I see what you mean.”

Auditory

Some people need to hear ideas, discussions, sounds, and music. They will say, “That sounds good to me,” or “That doesn’t sound right for me.”

Kinesthetic

Kinesthetic ...

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