Disassociation: How Geniuses Come Up With Creative Ideas & Solutions - Antano Solar

By his third year in college, Antano was solving IT problems for companies. Clients would come to him stuck on issues they had been working on for days. Sometimes he did not even know the subject. He would read the manual in front of them and find the answer. Not because he was smarter. Because he could disassociate. He could look at the problem without being inside it. Geniuses are not smarter. They are structurally different in how they position themselves relative to a problem. Disassociation is the capability to step outside the problem and see it from a perspective the stuck person cannot reach. When it is developed as a skill, creative solutions appear not as breakthroughs but as obvious next steps.