Richard Rohr, an American Franciscan friar and writer on spiritual issues, believes that each of us is addicted to our habitual ways of doing and thinking about things. He calls this tendency ...

How do some entrepreneurs manage to come up with solutions for the toughest problems? They borrow this method from an ancient philosopher. A First Principle is a basic, essential, foundational truth ...

An early attempt at creating a universal problem- solving machine. Developed in 1957 by Herbert Simon, J.C. Shaw and Allen Newell, the General Problem Solver (GPS) was designed to solve any problem ...

The explanations that participants give themselves (self-explanations) while learning or solving problems have been shown to be positively associated with various performance measures. The major aim ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Critical thinking is a fundamental cognitive process that enables individuals to objectively ...

The Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 69, No. 3 (MARCH 2018), pp. 402-415 (14 pages) This paper presents a heuristic for the guillotine two-dimensional bin packing problem, where a set ...

In the age of social media, brain teasers have become a popular trend, challenging users to test their problem-solving, pattern recognition, and critical thinking skills. These puzzles are not just a ...