The Intelligence Trap says: The more intelligent a person is the less likely they are to be a good thinker.
Why? Because very often the more intelligent a person is and the more articulate they are (if they are trapped in the right/wrong thinking method) the more they will defend the ‘rightness’ of their cvs. The more they dig-in to defend their cvs the less able they are to escape from their cvs box and find a much better one. This is one of the most serious problems of human thinking. It makes us very slow thinkers.
Bias toward criticism
To make matters worse, in our society there’s a strong bias towards criticism because it’s easier to criticise than to design. If you advocate an idea, you make yourself vulnerable to the criticism of others. On the other hand, if you just sit back and pick the faults in the ideas of others you get to be the one who showed others they were wrong. This fault-checking behavior can often be rewarded by the nodding approval of the peanut gallery.
It is also self-reinforcing: once you’ve been the critic for a while, you may realise others will do the same to your ideas and so you may be less inclined to put forward new ideas of your own. This also makes us very slow thinkers.
Fault-checking
Fault-checking is important but it’s not a substitute for innovation. Picking all the faults in a stagecoach may lead to the perfect stagecoach, but it won’t give you a motor-car. We need a different kind of thinking for that.
Of course, not all intelligent people get caught in the intelligence trap. Some are are able to escape from their cvs box instinctively, or some have been taught the specific thinking skills to do so.
The 59 Second Course
The last lesson was about – cvs2bvs – what I have called, ‘software for your brain’. Here’s a quick summary. Click here to watch the 59 Second Course in Thinking …
… https://youtu.be/WMSDj9GA4qw
DFQ #03 – What is the most important insight that you now have about ‘thinking’ that you’ll want to take away and think a lot more about?
You can click here to find all ten lessons, for your permanent rereference,
and with an introduction to this training. Please read before continuing.g.
Bonus Poster – Here’s a poster that summarises the cvs2bvs software for your brain. If you like you can print it out …
CVS2BVS: moving away from an automatically critical mind-set towards one that considers and allows room for innovation away from well trodden paths.
I loved ‘it’s easier to criticise than to design’ and ‘fault-checking behaviour can often be rewarded by the nodding approval of the peanut gallery.’ Innovation is stifled by criticism. Not only is x10 thinking exponentially better than what your current version of the situation is, building on 10 x 10 x 10, but it is simultaneously kind!
I want to think more about entering the Cognos.
That there isn’t just one, but multiples!
I should not be so tied up by nots and neighs and change that focus to somewhere else
How can I switch to BVS Without staying in my CVS? I.e truly switch to a BVS
Then surround yourself with CVS to BVS people, or never reach BVS..
Consciously think about the better options.
I need to be able to find the courage to not stay quiet/ offer my views in more situations. Flipping the switch will aid in not worrying as much about criticism.
BVS is essentially just looking at things in retrospect. “Needing to defend” your CVS may imply you are too attached for personal or emotional reasons.
Fear if CVS become a viral BVS and that becomes CVS. it appears to be in cycle.