How to Awaken & Enhance Your Analytical Problem-Solving Mind

[@ColinGalen]

Okay, a clarification. What I meant by "studying for IQ tests" is not that you can increase your inherent intelligence that way - that, by definition, is a contradiction. Of course the score itself will be meaningless. All I wanted to say is that anything seemingly controlled by IQ - even the test that is specifically designed to measure IQ - can be offset with some hard work thrown in. I am claiming that it's good to live in denial, and I think it's reasonable to do so.

[@kippe1221]

trapped in this basement for six years xD

[@kalmmonke5037]

iq limits potential rate of instances in pattern recognition , and in memory. measuring is for making sure people measure genetics potential, to measure if they shoudl make kids and who they should make them with. its also for choosing between potential candidates for a job , for having a product (liek sinurance), etc , when other more practical measures of qualification are equal between them

[@BBWahoo]

Basee

[@Descart330]

Ur IQ is what? A part of your brain with a fixed set of characteristics? i.e., efficiency in neuron development or something, or rate in which information travells, or the way neurons had developed to do fundamental things where some people's development had turned out better than others.

[@rzl34]

even if iq fixed, as long as there is not an impairing deficit, it is possible to achieve unbeliveable efficiencies and knowledge; it is very important to set aside limiting beliefs; iq is only one very narrow statistic that cannot encompass anything else that accounts into success, skills, knowledge, mindsets.. In fact being too smart can be a massive impairment because it can lead to very rationally logical spirals of self-destructive or self-loathing ideas that can lead to depression or nihilism and somehow rationalize such states of mind, even though they are literally impacting their ability to live and are therefore fundamentally wrong. The only belief you should have is one that propells you forward towards a better life, no matter who rationalizes otherwise. This is why therapy exists, among other possibly extremely powerful states of mind depending on the person and how good they train themselves in it, such as religion, meditation, stoicism...

[@Haridas991]

I am so impressed with your presentation, your intelligence, your brilliance, your humour. You are an amazing teacher. I am 73 years old and its crazy that I am even listening to this. I have been studying the neural sciences for 12 years and must admit that I have never heard a more brilliant explanation. Just love it.

[@briansalcedo8444]

As someone who likes the opinions of the more experienced i wanna say thanks for commenting. studying for these many years and complimenting this guy makes me feel like ive taken one of those long time lessons early

[@LewynMartell-m]

I am currently recovering from OCD. After 4 years of suffering from OCD, i learned that our brain has tremendous potential for creativity. Despite knowing that the thoughts are just OCD and i should not give in a do the compulsions, i still fell for its tricks (and the anxiety ofc). It always bought a variant of the same theme every now and then. One theme can last for years without running out of variants.

[@scientificmaterialgworl1995]

Dude i just want you to know that your video on intuition was a game changer for me and it might be the only reason I'm able to save my grades. Thank you so much for your hard work!!!💗

[@maamarfaroukbenbada]

I've also watched his video about intuition but my problem with these how-to's videos is that I never seem to know how to apply what they teach, can you give me an example on how you applied what he spoke about and how exactly you changed?

[@mgbakoremmanuel8222]

Me too

[@shaikan0]

Dude, please post these kinds of videos more often. You truly have an amazing gift. Continue sharing your thoughts and wisdom.

[@liondevelops]

Ok bro, one thing I have to tell you, is that you are an amazing teacher. I hope you end up becoming a computer science professor or start selling courses or something. Your teaching style is so easy to understand as well as very entertaining. Thanks for these videos mate!

[@38Tugay]

it is intuitive for logical thinkers. Majority of people would find this style corny or smthing

[@sleeptonight2023]

Yeah I think pretty much anything he does will be a profitable and more importantly will help mankind

[@t6hp]

- The video discusses how to awaken and enhance the analytical problem-solving mind through scientific understanding of creativity, and not through drug use. - The definition of creative problem solving is the ability to receive a task or problem and produce a creative solution that is new to you and useful in solving or addressing the problem. - There are three main parts of the brain that contribute to creativity: the generator, explorer, and filter. - The generator is an idea factory that generates a bunch of random ideas, both good and bad, that are given to the rest of the brain. - The explorer takes the ideas from the generator and explores them to see if they have any merit in solving the problem or if they can be learned from. - The filter filters out bad ideas from the generator before they reach the explorer. - Both the generator and the filter are mostly automatic, while the explorer is both manual and automatic. - There is a relationship between the conscious and unconscious parts of the brain, and understanding this relationship can make it easier to figure out how to improve creativity. - To improve creativity, one can practice generating ideas, exploring them, and filtering out bad ideas.

[@nxjan]

🙏🙏

[@rishitasrivastava8257]

Wow and this all happened in just a second

[@artificiyal]

i use ai

[@MamtajK]

This was a game changer for me. I'm preparing for stage-1 olympiad mathematical contest of my country, and all of this has helped me immensely. Thank you so much. 😊

[@zman0894]

I love watching videos like this while I’m high, and I am so high right now but so intrigued by your videos! Thank you, kind sir! 😎👍🏼

[@vinceblas606]

This video posseses the best methods for me on teaching viewers the skill they wanted •Talks at a relaxed pace •Uses simple diagrams •Includes teeny tiny humor which is great by the way Please keep uploading videos related to increasing intelligence 👍

[@satjeet]

The brain is super flexible. We have to squeeze it while we can❤

[@rachitmakhija9703]

Love this series. Please provide one practical example as well like in the field of maths. Thank you.

[@lorena.c]

I literally take notes on your videos

[@H3XED_OwO]

I'm a simple man: new Colin Galen video = I click on the video

[@desolatemoon7377]

Likewise

[@greencub4063]

Haha funny but also, importantly, real

[@083_tusharsachdeva6]

Us

[@maker142]

He's a man of good tastes, terraria and Minecraft? Huge w

[@shakilkhan4306]

Please continue live with one shots... specially for beginners... prefix sum, dealing with Frequency, two pointers and many useful tools of problem solving... Thanks

[@yokoso2386]

creative problem solving = do creative task, come up with something new, frame that as a problem and exercise creativelly solving creative is an ability to produce something that is bith novel or original and has utility that valuable to someone creative process : use past experience the information that we already know to produce something that we dont know new for experiment how do creative work scientifically = generatir ab idea factory that generate a bunch of random idea, but many of these ideas are garbage and some are maybe good generator => filter => explore = find detail, pick the particular idea and focus in a manual and auto way improve the concious and unconciosiosuly for make better decisions, more usefull details concious = exploring and filtering unconciously = generator more relevant ideas => more correct ideas => more detail ideas types of creativity : 1. insight when something sits in your mind then suddenly something idea pop up unexpetedly ( unconsiouslly generating the ideas without managing the process ) from active thought, past experience or information,newness unciciouss => cocncious management to process that idea into creation concious and uncocious => focus =>problem => solution type of thinking : .1 convergent thinking = combining a bunch of different of information,past problems and new problems and do one solution 2. divergent thinking = taking a single of information and generate as many potential solutions how to create video = come up with various of ideas or a particullar idea unconciuoslly with divergent thinking or convergent thinking with a bit of insight mixed => some ideas are filter out based on which ideas video that perform well and bad performance ideas => explore the ideas through concious explorer awaiting more details with synteshize => focus and bring the ideas into creation creativity => draft video => convergent thinking = research divergent thinking and insight = add ideas how to improve creativity = two types 1. short term creativity = optimization creative process to come up with good ideas for some problem 2. long term creativity = optimize your creative brain as a whole to imrpove your creativity boosting for generator ideas with knowledge relaxing filter to filter out more ideas that are goox unleash creativity = write down every ideas that come up no matter how good or bad the ideas, it shutting up the filter, it is for unleash the crazy ideas that doesnt promising at first the more stuck you are the more you should relax your filter and considering the crazy ideas that doesnt promising at first Inspiration = problem details, small examples, problem variations, past experiencr, random things around you if a lot of ideas that are considering not usefull = mental reset and break for generating new ideas if you can only focus on one task or problem you reduce stress praticing a certain thing let you improve at that thing insight => various oppurtunity to show up by solving hard problems convergent thinking => pattern recognizition, finding common ideas/themes, relating similar problems divergent => general problem solving tips for strong generator : 1. train on one problem until you feel tired 2. diversify of problems ( many problems ) and depth ( not many a loteng of problems ) 3. if not depth = spend longer, if solving to quickly = go another harder problem, igf taking a long time = spend less time for filter : 1. for a single problem filter out by come up with correct idea, alternative ideas, wrong ideas, variety of your ideas

[@sergeyt4282]

I think you should do more of this, Colin. Cause when I look at the problem, my mind is just blank. Like, take 2Sum - if you know the approach, you'll solve it. But if you don't and never done anything similar - get out of here.

[@toddboothbee1361]

I tend to remember future experiences, a definite advantage. I think encouraging people to remember past experiences is unnecessarily limiting.

[@learncode5110]

Thanks for sharing such valuable content please bring more on such topic like [Critical, creative thinking?, how to learn fast? reataintion of information, how to become smart? etc ]

[@journalsofathirddensitytra3498]

Omg, i just watched 3 vids of yours.. and you added some puzzle pieces i really needed to understanding how i learn... and get better at it! Thank you so much! ❤

[@dystopianpalace9778]

In short: better past info + more experience + more inspiration -> creative solution problem + iteration + feedback --> relevant ideas more relevant ideas + hit-and-trial -> more correct ideas

[@MohammadAli00]

Very well said bro 👍. I think I'm 7.5/10 in creativity and this video puts all my mental processes on paper.

[@chronosbat]

I already kind of had a vague idea of some of the stuff in the video but the way you explained them with pictures and structure improved my understanding so much!

[@RicardoSilva-du8qc]

I'm starting in the dev world and probably this video gonna help me alot, ty man. You're doing a great work for the one who seek this kind of content.

[@murrik]

-Schakels in “omdat” verkorten, naar de uiteindelijke, je doet iets hier omdat je daarme dit wil bereiken en daarmee dat andere etc etc en dat doe je uiteindelijk voor een bepaald doel, maar haal de schakels er tussen weg, en denk en herinner het uiteindelijke doel -Drawing, making it 3d, dont make it too big, verbally saying what you see, look at parts, ad parts gradually, practice taking less and less time Generator part and explorer part, filter between them but you might control it, past info an experience help choses the info that is more elaborate and relevant and more correct When procrastinating, hink of the nice experiences it might give, and bad ones if you Dont. So hoe nice if you do and how bad if you dont. Five types of innovative/Creativity thinking to get the ball rolling: aesthetic thinking, inspirational thinking, divergent thinking, convergent thinking lateral thinking. Divergent and convergent are most common wats to foster that. More stuck, more relax the filter 9:30 -Quote: Bad news for many people: you Can learn and improve

[@nighwargallogrifuvap]

Next video idea: debate thinking process, critical thinking?

[@gobi7764]

I am loving your recent videos, thank you for all the hardwork Colin!

[@sleeptonight2023]

Thank you

[@42222]

Dude what you jus described will be a big building block into solving AGI.

[@zhiychen1626]

Short term: write all thoughts down Long term: practice more

[@dazh894]

Another great video Colin! These are more important than ever with all of the layoffs sweeping tech right now. One question: how do you balance whether to go deep on an idea or explore a new one? I struggle with this especially when figuring out the optimal solution to a problem, e.g. I'll have a O(nlogn) but I'm not sure whether I should push for the O(n) or if it's even possible.

[@venusisalwaysabove]

filter can be really a sabotage for one's mind. Amazing content as always , THANKS !

[@solimandriyan6488]

I think you should do home teaching for youngsters or children to inspired "curiosity" in their brain 👍

[@GFC1337]

Great video Colin. Can you please make a video of you doing a leetcode contest? I would absolutely love to see that kind of content. The weekly contest is every Saturday at 9:30 pm est

[@farazmirza6048]

Again, perfect timing, before the USACO contest.

[@davedkukis]

Colin, thanks for the amazing content. I learned a lot! I wish you made more content on similar topics! Does anyone know more channels that discuss similar topics? Colin has great videos on these, but I watched them all and am still hungry. Or maybe someone could recommend a book or other source to learn?

[@eshaannilekar3851]

Hey Colin ,like usse vids ! Keep posting more abt exercising and improving brain power, learning how to learn, and general smartness.. Very imp topics but no one talks abt it

[@jassykat]

Weed helps you relax and focus on the present moment, allowing your brain to forget about everything else and focus solely on the task at hand. That's why it helps you come up with many ideas and interesting thoughts. The brain focuses on something and doesn't let it go. It's like getting in the flow but better. That's basically it.

[@professerlongjohn2913]

Colin’s out here with the stoicism

[@ithinklikeawesome]

1:01 OH MY GOD. I saw what you did there, you absolute mad lad.

[@ginkgoteki]

thinking about thinking is so cool, thank you!

[@satjeet]

Greats videos.🎉 taking notes.

[@0xvector850]

Hello colin, curious to what your thoughts about AI taking the jobs of programmers soon? Can you make a video about thos?

[@dimabirenbaum9200]

-- The video stresses the importance of developing analytical problem-solving skills through understanding creativity rather than relying on drugs. -- Creative problem-solving is generating innovative and valuable solutions for tasks or problems. -- The brain's creativity process involves three main parts: the generator, explorer, and filter. *** [The generator] functions as an idea factory, producing good and bad ideas for the rest of the brain to consider. *** [The explorer] evaluates the ideas from the generator to determine their potential value in solving the problem. *** [The filter] screens out unfavorable ideas from the generator before they reach the explorer. -- The generator and filter primarily operate automatically, while the explorer involves manual and automatic processes. -- Understanding the relationship between the brain's conscious and unconscious parts helps enhance creativity. -- To boost creativity, individuals can practice generating ideas, exploring them, and effectively filtering out undesirable ones.

[@COGONFX]

Thank you bro, God bless this helped alot

[@OscarRendon]

Loving the brainy approach in most of your videos!

[@bmwe46lover65]

Great content

[@gothikhouse]

I love your videos and the way you think so much! It would be really cool if you talked with Benjamin Keep. He's a learning researcher.

[@LucasSoares-ek6bx]

come back colin you are awesome we love you!!!!!!!!!!

[@hinduGigaChad951]

Mr. Colin Yoda Galen is back!!!!!!!

[@duyngo2370]

nice one

[@bluwng]

You have the best addiction, I need that addiction.

[@ndiagacxsse]

Knowledge this early in morning 😮

[@je4a301]

You would be a great college professor

[@yeckio]

hey Colin it would be nice if you make a video on what u find out while researching IQ in the future :)

[@musabkartal]

these videos are not the kind u can just sit and watch, i literally need to take a few pages of notes to get the idea fully

[@pocketblue]

makes me wonder how many people are actually benefitting from all these videos

[@isidoraaxis6179]

You remind me of Tom Riddle (hp6), love ur way of thinking and explaining 🙌🏻💪🏽

[@isidoraaxis6179]

@@idontknow6265 the voice mainly, and also the facial structure

[@terencejohnson4011]

Extroverted intuition also known as transcontextual thinking. It's the fastest idea generating cognitive function also most creative.

[@damnengineering26]

Bro you should write a book on this.

[@aviralarpan7350]

Can u please make a video on how to get better at implementation (including debugging, particularly when testcases aren't visible)?

[@whitehornwindchime6838]

thank you so much

[@CarlosSanchez-de9kt]

Thanks collin! Subscribed !

[@lorenzomizushal3980]

All good...in theory.

[@jacksparr0w300]

Really great video!!

[@EvertVorster]

You are a pretty good motivational speaker.... so if that competitive programming does not work out, there is something else for you to do. And, thanks for these great videos.

[@Aadithya006]

Start a C++ coding series !!! (this video too was great )

[@sheeish3645]

Although I really like this video, there's still this one question that've been lingering in my mind since I've seen this video: How do you know that the unconscious mind generates garbage ideas when there's no proof that they do (referring to the filtering out of the bad ideas, like it is possible that your unconscious DOES generate great ideas but every now and then messes up)

[@audreymcknight]

I am only here to acknowledge the pannenkoek reference.

[@arhamjain959]

I first saw 5 years, now it says ive been stuck in this basement for 6 yrs. His joking conscious brain is wayy to smart at filtering ideas.

[@nxjan]

amazing video :) i agree

[@MeLLiFLuOuSViDeOs]

Thanks

[@aadig5711]

Bro you went to my high school wtf

[@BlazeFlarerEclipse]

I laugh at the joke “and now you feel my pain”. XD

[@RinsletArisaEclipse]

too much pain indeed.

[@BlazeFlarerEclipse]

@@RinsletArisaEclipse Speaking of writing about jokes, hashtag relatable.

[@bhupendranath2010]

I love it absolutely !!!

[@dosaiba5294]

Every one of your videos is a banger

[@averagers_assemble]

So is this Nile Red's brother? That does computer programming? How many of them are there?

[@viniciusporto6088]

"Help i've been trapped in this basement for six years" "Yes i reused the joke"

[@OmarAhmed-jo1cf]

Bro I have been thinking exactly as you are and created a project management language just to manage this problem , lets get in contact ! .

[@matheussantiago6246]

My notes: Step 1 - do drugs Step 2 - yes

[@danisob3633]

3:57 i think my filter is dumping all the good ideas cause i have none 12:49 short time (restart your pc) -------------------------------------------> long time (restart your pc) these are my 3 jokes, i tried

[@reportpoison.shark.1326]

Can anyone tell me the whole summary of this 22 min video..I would be really thankful

[@tnsaturday]

You were obviously high when recording this video!

[@greenleaf870]

Great video. Can you put out a video on how to increase typing speed while programming?

[@mr.deeds_]

- Learn the available keyboard shortcuts for your programming language. - Train your typing speed in "Monkeytype".

[@麦佳鸿]

love that

[@solaris413]

did you took inspiration from Nor's blog?

[@giantessmaria]

this explains a lot about my relationship. My girlfriend doesn't have that "filter"😳

[@brandonWilliams-yr4re]

Where are you? Please post more bro

[@yash1152]

1:00 the footnote at bottom lol

[@keerthivasan9548]

Bro do a video classification of dp problems in leetcode according to their patterns like this problem goes into dp with memorization, this goes into matrix chain multiplication, this is decision dp, I don't know any other common patterns but i sure you know There are about 490 problems on leetcode tagged dynamic programming you can do a speedrun of those by just mention related patterns .It' ll be helpful for beginners to practice related pattern go together

[@fenix8132]

Good vid, btw, y'all good in the basement?

[@kidredglow2060]

brain inprovement

[@ahmadsofwan4069]

Great! Finally some impressive content!!

[@вльыовр]

Yo. Great video. Thanks a bunch. Can't wait for the caring video🥵

[@hvsalza4068]

I'd disagree drugs really improve creativity performance. I'd have to look into mentioned studies, but it seems really wrong. Every rubbish idea seems mind blowing when you high. Except for that I liked your video again, thanks man.

[@nighwargallogrifuvap]

Imagine all the people in the comments are throwing out bad ideas.

[@bluwng]

I just subscribed

[@kidredglow2060]

"wow a secret i am out of ideas help me comment brain improvement yes hello this is a actually formed sentance with no meaning but at least it forms a sentence so i can circle it and be happy"

[@codingmaster008]

Forgtiing cp these day

[@kidredglow2060]

"help ive been traped in this basement for Six years" "yes I reused the joke"

[@akrmfahem]

topic stream for binary search ?