You are looking for new ideas, products, concepts or technologies, and you're stuck, desperate, in panic with cold sweat trickling down your back. What now?

1. Jolting yourself out of the rut
Tips to get ideas flowing

2. Write down the problem
If you ask yourself
the right questions,
you’re half-way to
solving the problem.
Or maybe further.

3. Map your thoughts
It’s a great way of exploring
different avenues

4. Read !!!
Perhaps you don’t have enough information?
Do more. The answer may come from
a reflection, hidden away somewhere.

5. Listen to the Blues
Brain waves adapt to the rhythm of Blues,
riding on its tempo to enhance creative thinking and produce innovative ideas.

6. Do something that
requires a lot of
concentration.
It clears your mind,
and pushes the
problem to your
more powerful
back brain.
Have a go at Sudoku

7. Hit the pub
Go somewhere different.
New surroundings give you a
different state of mind.

8. What would Steve Jobs do?
If you can’t solve the problem as you, try to do it as someone else.
Imagine you’re that someone else. Now try to solve it as he would.

9. Deliberately come up with silly ideas
You may be setting your standards too high.
Deliberately lower them to get ideas flowing.
You can always raise them again later.

10. Keep on rewriting the problem
Maybe you’re still asking
yourself the wrong questions.
Rewriting it in a different way
may help you think about the
problem differently too.

11. Hit the pub again
Under pressure,
a drink or two might help you relax
and get you thinking.

12. Have a nap
Dreams are a brain’s way of sorting out data.
Have a nap and let your brain do the thinking.

13. Do the opposite
Never think there is only one way to solve a
problem: try and think the opposite way.
It probably won’t work, but it will get you
appoaching a problem from a different angle.

14. Finish those unfinished Post-Its
Don’t just settle for the first idea.
Set your goals and don’t give up
until you’ve reached them.

15. Hit another pub
Buy some total strangers a
drink and talk with them.
Feed them your thoughts,
and buy them some food.
Challenge. Explore. Discuss.
Listen, and listen more.

16. If you’re stuck, give up
Just for now !
Don’t push it !
Give up
If you do, you may get
yourself deeper into the rut.
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