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8 Shaping the Creative idea: Accessing the Reason Brainset

… from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man—the function of his reasoning mind.

—AYN RAND, THE FOUNTAINHEAD¹

IF THE CONNECT BRAINSET is the activation pattern for divergent thinking, the reason brainset is the activation pattern for convergent thinking. In the reason brainset, your executive center in the prefrontal cortex solves convergent, logical problems, with all the resources of your stored memory, knowledge, and learned ...

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