The following strategies will help you think productively, not reproductively.
Look at problems in many different ways. Find new perspectives that no one else has taken. Leonardo Da Vinci believed that to gain knowledge about the form of a problem, he needed to begin by learning to restructure in many different ways. He felt that the first way he looked at a problem was too biased.
Visualize ! Einstein worked through problems by creating as many possibilities as he could think of. He used diagrams to help him visualize.
Produce ! Thomas Edison, who invented the light bulb held 1,093 patents. Most of his patents were lemons. Most respected scientists produced great works, but also produced many bad ones. They weren’t afraid to fail, or produce mediocre inventions in order to arrive at excellence.
Make combinations! Combine, recombine ideas, images and thoughts into different combinations (no matter how unusual or unlikely they might be).
Form relationships! Make connections! Da Vinci made a connection between the sound of a bell and a stone hitting water. This enabled him to realize that sound travels in waves.
Prepare yourself for chance. When we attempt something and fail, we end up doing something else. This is creative accident. Failure can be productive if you analyze the process, its components and how you can change them to arrive at other results.
Have patience.
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