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Habits are a funny thing. We reach for them mindlessly,setting our brains on autopilot and relaxing into the unconscious comfort of familiar routine.“Not choice,but habit rules the unreflecting creatures,”William Wordsworth said in the 19th century. In the everchanging 21st century,even the word “habit” carries a negative meaning.
So it seems contradictory to talk about habits in the same context as innovation (创新). But brain researchers have discovered that when we consciously develop new habits,we create parallel paths,and even entirely new brain cells,that can jump our trains of thought onto new,innovative tracks.
Rather than dismissing ourselves as unchangeable creatures of habit,we can instead direct our own change by consciously developing new habits. In fact,the more new things we try,the more creative we become.
But don't bother trying to kill off old habits;once those ruts of procedure are worn into the brain,they're there to stay. Instead,the new habits we deliberately press into ourselves create parallel pathways that can bypass those old roads.
“The first thing needed for innovation is attraction to wonder, ”says Dawna Markova,
author of The Open Mind. “But we are taught instead to‘decide’,just as our president calls himself ‘the Decider’.” She adds,however,that “to decide is to kill off all possibilities but one. A good innovational thinker is always exploring the many other possibilities.”
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