When Is the Best Time to Make Your Decisions, Solve Problems,
Find Ideas and Clues?

Why, in bed, of course . . . first thing in the morning!

Scientific Method Lesson

1. Your mind is rested and functioning better. The “cobwebs” are gone.
2. Trivial details have faded and you will be thinking only of the most important factors.
3. When you start thinking of your problems, you stimulate your clear memory and imagination.

Here Is How You Proceed

Before the morning on which you are going to look for ideas, clues, tentative or working hypotheses or decision, you need to load your mind with information by following the scientific method (SM-14).

Step or Stage 1 – Curious Observation

·       Look for the unusual opportunities. Be sensitive to possibilities.

Step or Stage 2 – Is There a Problem?

·       Define your objectives and the real purpose of your problem.

Step or Stage 3 – Goals and Planning

·       Set your goals and make preliminary plans on how to accomplish them.

Step or Stage 4 – Search, Explore, and Gather the Evidence

·       Make a good search for possibilities, leads, clues, and data. Read pertinent and other periodicals.

Step or Stage 5 – Generate Creative and Logical Alternative Solutions

·       Exercise your imagination. Make sure you have a good selection of tentative possibilities.

Step or Stage 6 – Evaluate the Evidence

·       Make a spreadsheet with an analysis of all tentative possibilities. Consider all angles.

Now Rest! – Learning the Scientific Method

Right before bedtime think of your problem – this also is often a productive time.

Then, first thing in the morning, in bed, or while doing your toiletry, start thinking of your problem. And

EUREKA! A Flash of Illumination . . .

Or more often a gradual insight to an:

Write it down immediately!

Now follow through with the next steps or stages of the scientific method as your idea, solution, clue, decision is only a working one and must be challenged.

• Step or Stage 7 – Make the Educated Guess (Hypothesis)
• Step or Stage 8 – Challenge the Hypothesis
• Step or Stage 9 – Reach a Conclusion
• Step or Stage 10 – Suspend Judgment

While using the steps or stages, you also use the supporting ingredients.

• Ingredient 12 – Creative, Non-logical, Logical, and Technical Methods
• Ingredient 13 – Procedural Principles and Theories
• Ingredient 14 – Attributes and Thinking Skills