Increase Your Flexible Thinking Skills
32mGeneral2021-09-20
Authors

Andrea Bonior
Best-Selling Author, Speaker, Professor, and Clinical Psychologist
Course details
The ability to switch mental gears quickly and efficiently isn't just a boon for workers needing to pivot after a setback. This facility—also known as cognitive flexibility—is critical to everyone’s mental and physical health. Employees of all stripes need the ability to pivot, adapt, and challenge their automatic assumptions in order to increase their adaptability, resilience, and creativity. In this course, clinical psychologist and best-selling author Andrea Bonior teaches science-backed techniques for improving cognitive flexibility. Discover how to build daily mental habits to increase adaptability and clear-thinking, as well as practice incorporating innovation into your daily life. Tune in to nudge yourself beyond your comfort zone and learn how to build and maintain cognitive flexibility over the long term.
Skills covered
Well-Being and Self-CarePersonal DevelopmentProfessional DevelopmentOne-Off
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Welcome to this course
1. What Is Cognitive Flexibility, and Why Is It Important
- 02 - Cognitive flexibility defined
- 03 - Cognitive flexibility vs. other traits
- 04 - The benefits of cognitive flexibility
2. Challenges to Cognitive Flexibility
- 05 - Mental habits that breed rigidity
- 06 - Behaviors that create ruts
- 07 - External impacts on cognitive flexibility
3. Daily Boosts to Cognitive Flexibility
- 08 - Becoming an observer of your thoughts
- 09 - Making innovation a habit
- 10 - Tolerate discomfort while moving forward
Conclusion
- 11 - Practice is the point
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