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Recognize that you and everyone else have ingrained assumptions about
every situation.
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Ask plenty of basic questions in order to discover and challenge those
assumptions
- are we asking the right questions; why do we need to solve this
problem; why do we do
things this way at all; who would benefit and who would lose
if we solved the problem; how can we look at this in a
different way
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Pretend you are a complete outsider and ask question like "Why do we do it
this way at all?"
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Reduce a situation to its simplest components in order to take it out of
your environment.
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Consider what the experts and professionals advise and consider doing the
opposite.
Creativity
requires spending time "doing nothing" - workaholism guarantees its
death
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