Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be.

If you make an error, use it as a stepping stone to a new idea you might not have otherwise discovered.

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.

It's difficult to get your creative juices flowing if you're always being practical, following rules, afraid to make mistakes, not looking into outside areas, or under the influence of any of the other mental locks.

The worlds of thought and action overlap. What you think has a way of becoming true.

Look for the second right answer.

Open your mind up to things that have no connection with the problem you're trying to solve: subscribe to an unusual magazine; spend a morning at an elementary school; go to work two hours early; test drive an exotic car; attend a city council meeting; ...try an Indonesian recipe.