Making break throughs
A recent find on a website Creativity Everyday called the Innovation Mindset. Another way to phrase it would be ‘How to make a break through’ and could be applied to any area of your life – work or otherwise.
- Make the box bigger, or better, imagine there is no box
- Question what hasn’t been asked
- Make new connections
- Relate the unrelated
- Connect emotions with thoughts, actions, values and beliefs
- Appreciate restlessness as a signal for a chance to do something differently
- Increase satisfaction, meet yours and people’s needs in new ways
- Question the status quo
- Create more desirable futures
- Let the past be a guide post, not a hitching post
- Be open to experiment
- Adopt a ‘let’s learn from our mistakes’ attitude
- Realize that the first idea is a rough draft, open to refinement
- Keep your sense of humour
- Give yourself new experiences
- Learn something new
- Find out what troubles confuses others, then find new ways to ease their pain