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Control Centre Skill No.3:
Flexible Thinking
What is Flexible Thinking?
Flexible thinking is one of the six important Control Centre Skills.
Experts sometimes call it ‘Cognitive Flexibility’.
We describe people with good Flexible Thinking as ‘Flexi Foxes’
Flexible thinking helps a person to:
▪ Change tasks quickly and easily
▪ Switch attention from one thing to another
▪ Problem-solve and think about something
in more than one way
▪ Try different ways of doing things to find the best
way
▪ See other people’s points of view and agree
compromises.
Think of Flexible Thinking like a piece of
elastic: it can change quickly and easily.
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