Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg, author of What's Your Problem?joins us this week to talk about the psychology of problem solving. Learn his top tips for problem reframing and how to become a skillful problem solver.

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Further Reading:

  • What's Your Problem? by Wedell-Wedellsborg (2020)
  • Innovation as Usual by Miller and Wedell-Wedellsborg (2013)
  • Switchby Heath and Heath (2010)
  • Decisive by Heath and Heath (2013)
  • "Identity and Epistemic Emotions During Knowledge Revision: A Potential Account for the Backfire Effect" by Trevors et. al. (2016)
  • "Cognitive Reappraisal in Children" by DeCicco, O'Toole, and Dennis (2014)
  • "When surface and deep-level diversity collide" by Phillips and Loyd (2006)
  • "Mechanizing in problem solving" by Luchins (1942)
  • "A brain mechanism for facilitation of insight by positive affect" by Subramaniam et. al. (2008)
  • "The cognitive neuroscience of insight" by Kounios and Beeman (2014)
  • "The creative brain" by Fink et. al. (2008)
  • Six Thinking Hats by De Bono (1999)
  • "Should Public Figures Apologize?" by Sunstein (2019)
  • Creativity by Csikszentmihaliy (1999)
  • “Boundary Spanning Individuals: Their Role in Information Transfer and Their Antecedents” by Tushman and Scanlan (1981)
  • "Why Decisions Fail: Avoiding the Blunders and Traps That Lead to Debacles" by Nutt (2003)
  • The Creative Vision by Getzels and Csikszentmihaliy (1999)

Produced by Scarlet Moon Things
Music by Barrie Gledden, Kes Loy, and Richard Kimmings

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