How To Be Creative: Look Sideways

Some attributes of creativity:

Challenge assumptions

Be receptive to new ideas

Recognize similarities or differences

Make unlikely connections

Take risks

Build on ideas to make better ideas

Look at things in new ways

Take advantage of the unexpected

from The Art of Looking Sideways by Alan Fletcher

 

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