Paul Sloane at Lifehack:

Let’s say you are wrestling with a tough issue - maybe at work, at home, with your children or in your social life.

You have been stuck for a while and you can’t seem to make a breakthrough.

You want to come up with some really creative ideas. What can you do? Here are ten great practical ways to boost your inventiveness and to crack the problem:

1. Ask why, why?

2. Sleep on it.

3. Talk it over with someone who has nothing to do with the situation.

4. Ask how some celebrity would tackle the issue.

5. Pick up any object at random and say to yourself, ‘this item contains the key to solving the problem.’

6. Use similes.

7. Imagine an ideal solution in a world where there are no constraints.

8. Open a dictionary and take any noun at random.

9. Ponder the issue and then go for a walk around an art gallery or museum.

10. Draw a picture of the situation.

Photo by sxc.hu.

From Business Opportunities Weblog.

Original post by Rich Whittle