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Mental flexibility

The ability to willing shift your thought patterns to fit a given situation.  If there was a change of plans do to an unexpected circumstance, the ability to be cognitively flexible and search or an alternate solution around the problem is an example of mental flexibility.  Understanding the issue at hand, and looking for a new way around it.
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