Here's my advice: Go ahead and be whacky. Get into a crazy frame of mind and ask what's funny about what you're doing.
Look for the second right answer.
When everyone thinks alike, no one is doing very much thinking.
Flexibility is a requirement for survival.
Most brilliance arises from ordinary people working together in extraordinary ways.
We grow up thinking that the best answer is in someone else's brain. Much of our education is an elaborate game of 'guess what's in the teacher's head?' What the world really needs to know right now is what kind of dreams and ideas are in your head.