Get Creative Juices Flowing.Just as you can learn how to be more optimistic op·ti·mist n. 1. One who usually expects a favorable outcome. 2. A believer in philosophical optimism. op , you can teach yourself to think more creatively, notes creativity expert Michael Michalko  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . in a recent issue of The Futurist. Try these mind-expanding strategies. * Think in reverse; that is, challenge common assumptions. Alfred P. Sloan Alfred Pritchard Sloan, Jr. (May 23, 1875 – February 17, 1966) was a long-time president and chairman of General Motors. [] Biography Sloan was born in New Haven, Connecticut. , chief executive officer of General Motors, invented the concept of buying on credit by reversing the notion that you had to pay for a car before you drove it. * Expand your perceptions. Turn problems into new opportunities by ignoring self-imposed barriers. * Let ideas flow, no matter bow absurd they may seem. Faced with the problem of preventing ice from downing power lines, a member of a group of engineers suggested putting a pot of honey on each pole; bears would then climb the poles and their vibrations would dislodge dis·lodge v. dis·lodged, dis·lodg·ing, dis·lodg·es v.tr. To remove or force out from a position or dwelling previously occupied. v.intr. the ice. That crazy idea led to a real-life solution: using helicopters to blow off the ice. |
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