You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.
Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.
Logic will never change emotion or perception.
Perception is real even when it is not reality.
Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways.
Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.