{"id":2078,"date":"2018-01-22T10:06:40","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T10:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eho.zrs.mybluehost.me\/?p=2078"},"modified":"2021-09-28T10:41:58","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T10:41:58","slug":"relax-your-clever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/relax-your-clever\/","title":{"rendered":"Relax your clever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve used a set of eight improv principles as part of our training for a number of years. You can read about the full set\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativefacilitation.com\/how-we-work\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This one &#8211; Relax Your Clever &#8211; is probably our favourite, possibly because it&#8217;s the one we feel we need to practice the most. Faced with challenging situations, it&#8217;s easy to think of quick solutions but it&#8217;s usually wiser to take more time, and\u00a0see more of what&#8217;s going on. When we do that we often realise that the problem we&#8217;re trying to solve is more interesting than our initial solution supposed.<\/p>\n<p>So we enjoyed Mark McGuiness&#8217; post:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lateralaction.com\/articles\/thinking-is-overrated\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Why Thinking is Over-rated<\/a>. As Mark points out, &#8220;the literature on creativity is full of accounts of sudden insight or inspiration, often happening shortly after someone has given up trying to solve a problem through reasoning.&#8221; \u00a0When meetings are getting intense, often the best move is counter-intuitive: leave the issue alone, take a break and go for a walk.<\/p>\n<p>(Photo by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/zlABb6Gke24?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Clem Onojeghuo<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/search\/photos\/relax?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unsplash<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve used a set of eight improv principles as part of our training for a number of years. You can read about the full set\u00a0here. This one &#8211; Relax Your Clever &#8211; is probably our favourite, possibly because it&#8217;s the one we feel we need to practice the most. Faced with challenging situations, it&#8217;s easy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2070,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2078"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2080,"href":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions\/2080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}