32% Faster Thinking in 30 minutes
June 29, 2008
Recently I conducted a Speed Thinking Workshop with 30 people who work for a major non-profit organisation.
At the beginning of the 1.5 hour workshop i asked them to record how fast they were thinking at this very moment. Their average score was 4.88, on a ten point scale (self-scored).
After 30 minutes of various Speed Thinking tools and exercises i ask them again to score how fast they were thinking and on average they scored themselves at 6.44. This is anincrease of 32%.
At the end of the session they scored themselves at 6.96 which was a 43% increase from their original state.
This finding tends to validate my experience in other workshops that i have run that you can increase the speed at which you think, quickly. I know this is only one group and it needs to be replicated etc but it is indicative.
Some of the other possible reasons for this increase other than the effect of the Speed Thinking Tools might be:
- The people that attended the session (it was voluntary) were open to the concept of Speed Thinking as they has self-selected
- The physical exercises we do to sharpen up the reflexes at the beginning of any workshop can sharpen the mind.
- There is a ‘group effect’–as they were all trying to improve our Speed Thinking it might influence one another.
- Simply talking about Speed Thinking might raise people’s awareness of it so they are simply just focus on it (perhaps for the first time?).
- It might just be that suggesting to people that they can think faster helps them to break free of a self-imposed limit?
What do you think?
Ken Hudson
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