Afterword
We started out on this journey, in Chapter 1, by entering the space that opens up in our heads when we’re stuck. Intuitive problem-solving is never stuck for something to do. Intuition matches a situation to a mental pattern and acts on it. When intuitive problem-solving breaks down – when we want to do something, but we don’t know what to do – we can turn to rational problem-solving.
But in opening up that space between understanding a problem and generating a solution, we’ve separated the two parts of problem-solving that ought to remain together: thinking and doing. Throughout this book, we’ve discovered that success in solving problems means bringing these two stages closer. In Chapter 11 we sought to unite them, at the moment ...
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