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What Is The First Mental Barrier

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The first mental barrier is a persons mental set. This might be someone who works in a certain field and tries to move to another field of study but struggles because all their problem solving skills were tuned to his last field so this can cause a barrier until he or she gets used to a knew way of thinking. The second barrier is functional fixedness. This is similar to mental set but if you have been staring at a cloud and think its a horse and someone else comes along and say it looks like a frog, you will still see the horse most likely and it will be hard to alter your view because you were fixated on the horse. The third barrier is self-imposed limitations. This can come from a lack of creativity. Someone imposes unnecessary restrictions

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