ABOUT THE PODCAST:
Cognitive flexibility has a big impact on your emotional health and wellness. In a nutshell, cognitive flexibility is the ability to appropriately switch your thinking and your actions. It may not sound exciting or glamorous, but it directly impacts your creativity, resilience, and quality of life. The more cognitively flexible you are, the better able you are to respond to changes in your environment. So if you want to be more cognitively flexible, what can you do?
In this episode you’ll learn how using The Model can help you decrease cognitive rigidity and increase cognitive flexibility. Listen in to hear ideas, examples, and questions that will help you stretch your thinking and challenge unhelpful beliefs.
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN:
What cognitive flexibility is and why you want more of it
How differentiating circumstances from thoughts can increase cognitive flexibility
Why truth and facts are not synonymous
3 things that impact our understanding of truth
10 questions you can use to challenge unhelpful beliefs and increase cognitive flexibility
Why our brains default to simplistic, black-and-white thinking that limits cognitive flexibility
FEATURED IN THE EPISODE:
Cognitive flexibility articles – ScienceDirect, NIH, and BetterUp
Dieter F. Uchtdorf General Conference Talk, October 2013