The document discusses building mental flexibility through changing one's perception, mindset, habits, and point of view. It suggests getting free of rigid attitudes and snap reactions by putting yourself in others' shoes. Using flexible language like "it seems to me" rather than rigid terms like "always" can help evaluate ideas from different perspectives. Mental flexibility involves adapting to changing situations by questioning assumptions, considering options for action, and thinking on one's feet with conceptual fluency.

1. Building your thinking power
Mental Flexibility
Barbara Olivieri
Area Director G2

2. Perception Mindset
Habit
Response
Point of view
Language
New
solutions
Mental
Flexibility

4. Perception

5. Perception

7. Pattern recognizers

8. What do you see?

14. Perception Mindset

15. Mind-Set

16. A momentary attitude
or expectation that
governs our behavior.

19. Getting free of rigid attitude

20. Perception Mindset
Habit
Response

21. Habit response

22. An automatic
association between two
ideas that leads you to
react to one idea in
terms of the other.

26. Letting go of snap reaction

27. Perception Mindset
Habit
Response
Mental
Flexibility

28. Mental flexibility

29. The ability and
willingness to adapt to
a changing reality.

30. What do you see?

35. Perception Mindset
Habit
Response
Point of view
Mental
Flexibility

36. Point of View

37. A particular way of
assigning priorities
to the factors involved
in a situation.

38. Put yourself in their shoes

39. Perception Mindset
Habit
Response
Point of view
Language
Mental
Flexibility

41. All
Always
Every
Everybody
Never
Nobody
I don't know
I made a mistake
I changed my mind
It seems to me
So far as I know
To a certain extent
Semantic Qualifiers
Rigid Flexible

42. Positive aspect of the idea
I nteresting aspect
N egative aspect
P.I.N. Response

43. Evaluate the proposals

44. Perception Mindset
Habit
Response
Point of view
Language
New
solutions
Mental
Flexibility

45. • What’s going on here?
• What is my objective?
• What are my options for action?
Thinking on Your Feet

46. Conceptual fluency

48. Books suggestions...
Thank you!
Barbara Olivieri olivieri.barbara@gmail.com