- Human brain often takes shortcuts that come as a result of habits or performing the same action numerous times. While these can be powerful they also sometimes fail us when we need to be creative or novel. This is also why we often suffer from [[Functional Fixedness]] - The world today is especially constantly changing and requires us to think differently and this is what Elastic Thinking is about. We need to be conscious of our shortcuts and try [[Changing System]]. ---- Scripted behavior is one of nature’s shortcuts, a reliable coping mechanism that leads to results that are usually successful. It can be either innate or the result of habit, and it is often related to mating, nesting, and killing prey. But—what is most important—while scripted behavior can be appropriate in routine situations, it produces a fixed response, and so it often fails in circumstances of novelty or change. the first step in nurturing either analytical or elastic thinking is to nurture thinking—to become more conscious of when you employ automated scripts, and to discard them when they don’t serve you well. For it is only when you are self-aware that you can interrupt an automatic script if it is not appropriate. - Leonard Mlodinow in [[Elastic|Elastic]]