Here's an article I found fascinating, given the "focusing on the details" vs. "seeing the big picture" discussions that have come up recently.
It appears that artificially *increasing* the ability to focus on the small shit and avoid the big picture might have some benefits in terms of triggering savant-like skills. What I wonder is, at what cost? If such a "thinking cap" could enable you to increase your math skills, but at the cost of being able to see the "big picture," would you wear it? For example, one of the things reported in the article is that subjects, after wearing the cap, were able to spot mistakes in text that they had missed the previous day. Cool, if you're an editor, I guess, but do these subjects retain the ability to know what the book they found errors in is really about? Can they still *see* the "big picture" of it? The 'thinking cap' that could unlock your inner genius and boost creativity http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1064431/The-thinking-cap-unlock-inner-genius-boost-creativity.html or http://tinyurl.com/5xct83
