So, if you are
following along in your Top 10 Transferable Skills Series, you have learned how
these attributes help you keep your career afloat in tough times, how to
determine your own skills list, and now we are working on strengthening the
ones that will give your abilities a boost.
The #4 Top Transferable
Skill on our list is Problem-Solving.
This week let's take a look at the benefits of using mind games to increase
your problem-solving power.
You Need Problem
Solving Skills To Make It In Life
You face problems
every day. If you aren't solving
customer problems, you are helping a coworker solve an issue, solving a family
problem, or looking for your own solutions to problems (like how to improve
your problem-solving skills).
By weeding out bad mental habits and improving on processes
that work, your process becomes a pattern that you can apply to various situations and successfully problem solve.
So What Does It Take
To Get Better And Faster At Problem-Solving?
Now, on to the part where you get better at this skill….after
all, you want to be the "Go-To" person for problems in your field (That is part
of what makes you highly desirable to your future employer).
Experience is definitely a main factor, but have you also
considered mind games to strengthen supporting contributors to problem-solving: Pattern Recognition and Logic .
Research suggests that games that utilize these factors in a
timed and pressured setting do in fact increase your mental sharpness.
Pattern Recognition
Candy Crush Saga was a big deal in my former office for
quite some time. It helps you increase your ability to recognize visual
patterns.
Not only do we seek patterns around us but also include patterns
in the things we create. Research on human skill acquisition has proven that
your ability to recognize and recall patterns that have inherent meaning
improve expertise in a select area.
Candy Crush Saga challenges your pattern recognition and
cognitive speed with 385 levels and cross platform capability you can charge up
your pattern recognition power on any device and not miss the beat.
Logic
My four-year-old's favorite game to play while with me while
waiting at an appointment is Cut the Rope. It's a cute and engaging game where
the goal is to get the candy which is attached to the rope onto into Om Nom's
mouth ( a green alien). The catch is that there are various obstacles in the
way and you must use cause and effect reasoning to get the candy from
point A to point B.
It is a physics based puzzle game that has been researched as having a positive effect on executive functioning sharpness. This is important for general intelligence, problem-solving,
and multitasking. The game starts off pretty simple but the longer you play the
more complex the puzzles get .
Will These Games Make
You Smarter Overall?
No, you will not become a genius by playing Candy Crush, Cut The Rope or any other mind training game.
However, intentionally doing activities that are timed and pressured; while increasing your focus, logic, critical thinking, and pattern recognition can enhance your mental alertness and critical thinking processing speed if you are mindful to apply the concepts to your everyday tasks.
However, intentionally doing activities that are timed and pressured; while increasing your focus, logic, critical thinking, and pattern recognition can enhance your mental alertness and critical thinking processing speed if you are mindful to apply the concepts to your everyday tasks.
What Do You Think?
Are you a Candy Crush, or Cut The Rope player that feels a
bit more mentally sharp at problem-solving?
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