Unlocking the Mind: Achieve Clarity with LEGO Serious Play

Transformative Tools to Externalize and Organize Your Thoughts

Your mind is a messy attic…
 
There is a ton of stuff being stored up there and you can't always access what you want.
 
Until we find a better way to organize and access information in our heads, the best way to access some of that information is to use external tools. 
 
What kind of tools can these be? 
 
Working with others/groups - We tend to access different ideas and thoughts when discussing and working though problems or ideas with people as they can disrupt the path of our minds and bring us to places we wouldn't have gone ourselves.
 
Writing- By writing we can externalize information and see it in a different way. Think of when you've written down word to see if it looks right. Or when you use a whiteboard to "see" how ideas and thoughts coalesce.
 
Using objects - With objects, we can mentally offload information onto them, allowing us to see, rearrange, and even play with them, providing new perspectives and a deeper understanding. You also get benefit of externalization.
 
On top of these benefits, we get something called detachment gain. According to Daniel Reisberg, this is the cognitive benefit we receive from putting a bit of distance between ourselves and the content of our minds
 
These benefits are some of the reasons I'm passionate about the LEGO Serious Play method- where you build your ideas and thoughts out of LEGO bricks with your team to better understand complex scenarios and systems.
 
It gives all of these benefits and allows us to see, interact, and understand topics with amplified abilities, and it's fun as well!