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Cooking For Geeks

by Jeff Potter

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Indexed Notes by Topic

Functional Fixedness

Examples:

  1. Cooking can involve thinking outside traditional ingredients or uses for each ingredient.

References:

  1. Karl Duncker, The Candle Problem.

Insights:

  1. Recognising the capability of objects to serve other functions requires mental restructuring so we don't fall into our cognitive bias.

Principles:

  1. Understand the problem and the resources at your disposal.
  2. Break the problem into individual steps.
  3. Explore different possibilities for each step.