How Patterns Boost Our Performance…Without Even Knowing It

Humans tend to follow hidden patterns in games like Rock-Paper-Scissors, and researchers have discovered that these patterns apply to creativity as well. For thousands of years, inventors have embedded five simple patterns into their inventions, usually without knowing it. These patterns include subtraction, task unification, multiplication, division, and attribute dependency. However, using these patterns relies on reversing the way people typically think about problem solving and starting from a closed world perspective rather than trying to get way outside the box.