Ways to Think Fresh

Whether you say it innovation or just being a decent problem solver, creativity is the key for achievement in today’s rapidly-moving business sector.

Yet, people find themselves stuck in thinking inside the box, operating in a rut of habits, or spending days at a pace that doesn’t allow people to think and stop.

Generally, the term “creative” has been reserved for the artists; and the word “innovation” mainly found relevant for science and technology.

However, the perception of inspiration now applies to everybody, in every field. If all people wish to adapt, grow and succeed as teams, Institutes, leaders and global organizations, they must focus on collective creative capacity.

Collective Creativity

Beyond building some individual skills as creative thinkers, leaders must also concentrate on educating a team of people who can innovate together as part of the daily work. Here are a few ways to lay the foundation:

1. Collaboration: Break out of the feed such as “marketing” or “accounting”. Working collaboratively across the establishment allows crews to see things from a fresh viewpoint. This cognitive variety is important in order to find new solutions.

2. Conversation: Have strong, deep discussions about the solutions, problems and successes. Open novel discussion and inspire people to spontaneously debate what’s been placed on the table.

3. Conscious struggle: Make inspiration your core value. Offer additional Education. Recognize and award creative hard work, mainly persons whose sincere efforts bring positive results or growth.

Creativity is not about reinventing the wheel; it is watching at the wheel with eyes focused on refining the design and function. Creativity is finding fresh viewpoints on the problems and identifying new prospects for any solution. And it is vital for building the steering challenges, velocity and remaining relevant in today’s fast-moving world.

Here are a few ways to think fresh:

Realizing

The first step to keep your thinking fresh is the realization that it is vital and one needs to be focused about this. Once people put their intentions behind this, the subconscious mind will take this as an important aspect and will keep noticing stuff that will enable one to find different ways to keep one thinking fresh.

Exposing

The next step to keep your thinking fresh is to keep exposing yourself to fresh thinking happening around you. You could read blogs, books, listen to audio-books (or podcasts) or watch interviews or keynote presentations, attend conferences and network with different kinds of people. You would be even better off, if you include a lot of variety in your consumption habits and are not restricted to your own field of study or operation.

Conversing

There is nothing that is better than this to have a cup of hot coffee/tea and a stimulating conversation with someone you respect and admire. Even better if the conversation helps you either solidify or help change your position on a specific topic. So, it is very important to have the ability to change the opinions about anything and everything when you find evidence supporting the contrary view.

Thinking

If you don’t find someone to have this conversation with, you could do this with yourself by following the principle of Janusian thinking. This is the very kind of thinking where you first create a set of arguments for a belief and then try and create another set of arguments which are contrary to this belief. This way, you will slowly realize that there is always a contrary opinion, which could be as valid as your own opinion and you will start respecting other people with the contrarian beliefs as much as you respect your own beliefs.

Retreating

Every now-and-then retreating to a place which affords solitude also serves a very key role in keeping your thinking fresh. You could have designated time periods where you are alone with yourself, without any distractions. When people are alone with no distractions, the mind will bring up the thoughts and the emotions that have otherwise filed away. Once you deal with them, you then create the capacity to think about other important topics about which you care deeply about.

Teaching

The best way to keep your thinking fresh is to teach what you want to keep on top. Teaching is not very easy and when done well, both the students and the teachers go back enriched and refined in every way.

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