extracting concepts

Some people are impatient with concepts and regard them as academic and abstract.

Such people prefer concrete hands-on action. They do not realize that the purpose of concepts is to breed concrete ALTERNATIVES for ACTION!

CONCEPTS ARE A HUGELY IMPORTANT PART OF THINKING AND CREATIVE THINKING IN PARTICULAR.

Concepts are the junctions in mind - as well as the roundabouts in the mind. Once you get to the round about you can take a different route. |Edward de Bono - Simplicity|

The ability to form concepts, like almost all the excellence behavior of human brain, arises from poor engineering. An engineer could never have designed the human brain. An engineer would have thrown out all those features which specifically give human brains its immense ability.

Concepts arise from the inability of the brain to form precise images.

You cannot think of alternative without there being a background concept in your mind. Hence, a good coach should be able to tap the ability of his /her coachee to open up as many as possible 'different routes' in meeting the desired goal.