Cognitive Flexibility

36/100 Cognitive Flexibility
In my own Executive Function self assessment my biggest strength is flexibility. In my learning about cognitive flexibility I have started to understand that this strength is what allows me to see many possibilities, to see things from multiple perspectives and ask lots of questions. If flexibility is a weakness you are probably a pretty linear thinker, problem straight to solution kind of person. If flexibility is a strength you may see lots of solutions to every problem. Depending on the situation, I can see where both of these could be good skills to have but as with so many things in this project I can also see the flip side. A flip side I can see for myself with Flexibility as a strength is that my thinking can be little messy. With more thoughts and ideas comes more room for mistakes. I don’t think this is a bad thing just something we should maybe make more room for. If someone is a flexible thinker we need to give them room to explore all the paths before they come to the one that is going to work. This may mean more trial and error. In some environments flexible thinking and the mistakes that come with may even be punished or corrected making what is truly a strength feel like a weakness again.
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