Hello!
Seiiti Arata.
Quantum Thinking is a technique that trains your mind to see a problem from every possible
angle.
I heard about technique from Nick Szabo and it helps solve complex problems, improve reasoning
ability and increases your intelligence levels.
Quantum thinking is a very practical technique: you need to think about a topic you already
have an opinion about, and then try to enthusiastically argue the opposing point of view.
I am sure that sooner or later, people who have not watched the video will leave some
comments criticising me for using the word “quantum”.
Yes, unfortunately I know that QUANTUM is a word that has been misused by some individuals
involved in questionable practises these past years.
However, quantum thinking is a very wise and useful idea.
You can practise it right now, training your thinking so you are able to defend opposing
ideas and observe all the possibilities.
For example, if you are a vegetarian, you have to try to argue from the point of view
of someone who eats meat and explain all the advantages of eating meat, as well as the
disadvantages of being a vegetarian.
If you are against compulsory voting, you have to try to defend the importance of forcing
every citizen to vote and justify why the government should impose penalties on those
who disobey.
If you are a saver who invests for the future, try to criticise your own choices and defend
the importance of spending everything you own and enjoying yourself while you are alive.
Why make an effort to argue the opposite side of your point of view?
This increases your ability to be more eloquent, it helps your listening abilities, your ability
to rationally evaluate the arguments and even deepens your knowledge on the topic.
And if you try to do that, you will realise that quantum thinking is easy to understand,
but not so easy to put into practice.
Quantum thinking is the ability to have two opposite opinions at the same time.
We like to think we are wise and intelligent people that are able to see the truth in the
facts.
But each person sees a subjective reality, which is distorted by their own knowledge,
ideas and experiences.
This is not a flaw, just an observation.
Everything we know, go through and experience, ends up influencing the way we see the world.
And detaching from the ideas we have about the world is an extremely difficult task.
This is why the quantum thinking technique is so effective.
If you are able to practise it correctly, you will burst your own bubbles and begin
to understand other people’s points of view, understand their opinions and see problems
from a whole new perspective.
In quantum physics, an object can have duality, meaning it can display wave and particle properties
at the same time.
Using a metaphor, in quantum thinking, your mind is able to understand two or more opposing
opinions at the same time.
It is as if you are able to agree and disagree about something at the same time.
Understand this as an analogy.
There is nothing actually quantum by thinking like this.
There are some scientists who are trying to prove a quantum theory of the mind, but this
is not the topic we are talking about here.
We call it Quantum Thinking because this is how the cryptographer Nick Szabo defined the
technique and made it popular [source: https://arata.se/source-ijcj ]. This is an unusual way of thinking about
different topics, and I hope it helps you.
More than disagreeing with other people, you have to learn to disagree with yourself.
But no matter what we call this technique, we are simply talking about a practice that
increases your intelligence levels, which gives you the ability to understand opposing
opinions at the same time.
It may seem impossible at the beginning, but this is just another skill that is within
the possibilities of the human brain.
And, as with any skill, it can be trained.
The only way to develop quantum thinking is by defending opinions that are opposite from
your own and by disagreeing with yourself.
In order to train your quantum thinking, choose a topic you believe in.
Preferably, choose a topic you have strong beliefs about.
Then, try to list opposing arguments.
Think about what you would have to tell someone to convince them that the truth is the opposite
of what you believe.
This exercise will be uncomfortable.
You will have to study, think and say the opposite of what you believe.
But the advantage of quantum thinking is in that discomfort.
It will expand your vision of the world, develop your empathy and increase your intelligence
levels.
Obviously, doing this only once is pointless.
It is important to practise and repeat the exercise several times, with different topics.
You can begin by pretending, choosing specific topics, but ideally you should apply this
technique to real problems.
For example, imagine a problem from work where you defend a point of view as the best possible
way to solve the problem.
Now try to defend the opposite point of view.
Make note of the argument, change your point of view, explore the possibilities.
Try to beat your initial position.
You can do the same in your personal life.
Question your own beliefs about money, health, food and relationships.
Try to explore other points of view, if only to conclude that you were right all along.
Quantum thinking is the opposite to binary thinking, and it is more adapted to the reality
we are living in.
For a long time during human evolution, we have thought about reality in a binary way.
We think in terms of is or isn’t, right or wrong, this or that.
But as our knowledge progresses, we are more and more certain that reality is more complex
than ones and zeros.
The same fact can be right or wrong depending on the point of view, the context and the
conditions in that moment.
Sticking to an absolute truth without taking these variables into consideration is having
an outdated vision of the world, which will end up leaving you behind in both the work
field and the interpersonal relationship field.
We can even use the physics analogy here.
In classical physics, we learnt that two bodies cannot occupy the same place in space.
If there is already something there, there cannot be something else in the same place
at the same time.
But in quantum physics there is the superposition phenomenon, where two particles can be observed
in the same place, at the same time.
This is a new way of understanding the world, which came with evolution in our knowledge.
And it applies to everything in life.
Just as we do not take care of our body the same way we used to decades ago, our intelligence
needs to evolve as well and be taken care of in a different way.
An intelligent person is not born like this, they studied, trained and practised different
ways of thinking in order to develop their own intelligence.
By training quantum thinking, you escape from the traps of an extremely polarised debate.
The polarisation of radical ideas is one of the biggest challenges of our time.
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discussing ideas has become more aggressive, toxic and not empathic.
Part of this polarisation has been created by experts in manipulation on purpose, as
we saw in episode 240 of the Hello!
Seiiti Arata series [https://arata.se/hello240].
The person on each side of the story defends their position with binary certainties that
are not enough to explain a more complex world.
It is as if you tried to use classical physics to explain quantum physics phenomena.
It simply does not work.
When you train your mind with quantum thinking, you open your mind to see problems from different
points of view.
You become more empathic.
You are able to understand, argue back and perhaps even convince someone who is on the
other side of the debate.
This is why quantum thinking is an essential tool for us all to evolve together.
If we want to break this polarisation barrier that is taking us nowhere, we have to open
up to new perspectives.
We have to listen to one another, understand new points of view and sometimes even admit
that we are completely wrong.
This is not a simple task.
But it is something your brain can learn to do, if you train it.
You have learnt the step-by-step process to train it.
But you are the only one who can take that guide and put it into practice to increase
your intelligence.
Quantum thinking is a technique that trains your mind to see a problem from different
points of view.
It is the ability to comprehend two opposing opinions at the same time.
To practise this technique, choose a topic you already have an opinion on, and try to
argue enthusiastically the opposing point of view.
This helps you have more empathy, breaks polarisations by arguing better and increases your happiness
levels.
This is just another piece of evidence that intelligence is not something you are born
with or without, staying like that forever.
The same way you train other skills, your intelligence can also be trained, developed
and increased.
In the Intelligence course, you will find different techniques to unlock the full potential
of your intelligence and memory.
Learn more about the course right now by accessing the link https://arata.se/intelligence