When we think about famous visionary thinkers, we subconsciously assume that they have some magic characteristic that the rest of us don’t have or can’t achieve.
In reality, the only magic they have is an intuitive understanding of how to avoid some very common creative thinking blocks. One of those blocks is the “Curse of Knowledge,” a cognitive bias, or mental shortcut, that all humans share.Stuck inside the boxYou’ve probably heard the term “Thinking outside the box.” And you’ve probably, at some point in your career, been asked to think outside the box. But without any understanding of why the
