1. Record some innovative ideas in time.
People often come up with many ideas in the process of work, life, communication and thinking, and most of them will be abandoned because they are out of date until they are completely forgotten.
In fact, in the field of innovation, the word "bad idea" never existed. An idea you had three years ago may be out of date, but it may be a very good idea three years later. What's more, those seemingly bizarre and far from mature ideas may stimulate your sense of innovation.
If you can record your thoughts in time, then when you need new ideas, you can start by reviewing the old ones. Doing so is not only a new opportunity for old ideas, but also a process of rethinking and rearranging, in which new innovative ideas are easily caught.
Ask yourself questions
If you don't ask a lot of "why", you won't have innovative ideas.
In order to avoid this common mistake, successful people always look for real problems through all superficial phenomena. They never take anything for granted; They never think anything is a natural process.
Those unclear questions that seem to be put forward on impulse often contain more sparks of innovative thinking.
3. Always express your thoughts.
If you have an idea, whatever it is, you should express it. If you are a person, express yourself; If it is a group, you might as well tell others to discuss it together.
Most ideas in one's life are rejected by unconscious self-censorship. This unconscious self-censorship mechanism treats all strange ideas as "weeds" and is eager to eradicate them as soon as possible.
There is no "weed" in a well-behaved mind, but there is no creativity in a well-behaved mind. If you want to be creative, you must take care of every "weed" as a new crop with potential economic value.
Speak your unusual thoughts and release them from your mind. Once they enter the field of communication, they can avoid the destruction of the self-censorship mechanism in the unconscious field. Doing so will give you a chance to examine, explore and taste them more carefully and fully, and find their real practical value.
4. Always full of desire for innovation
If you are satisfied with the status quo, you will not be in a hurry to create. No optimistic expectation, or not pursuing it because it is impossible at present, will hinder the creativity.
Inventors and ordinary people are actually the same person, but they always want to have a better way.
When tying shoelaces, they hope to have a simpler way, so they think of using buckles, snaps, rubber bands and magnets instead of shoelaces.
When cooking, they want to save the trouble of washing the pot, so they have a non-stick coating.
All this stems from the desire to improve the status quo.
5. Think in a new way
Sticking to the rules can't produce innovation, nor can it get people out of trouble.
Some people like to think with comparative analysis. Faced with a choice, he always sits down and writes down the positive and negative reasons on paper for analysis and comparison. Some people are used to thinking in images, drawing pictures or making a short list of unsolvable problems. Can you think differently, or use different thinking strategies alternately?
Give it a try. Perhaps the most difficult choice will be solved.
6. Have innovative ideas. We must work hard to implement it.
With innovative ideas, even the best ideas will leave you if you don't work hard to realize them.
If you want to work hard, but you don't persevere because you can't get results in a short time, you will also miss out on those who have achieved great things.
Edison said, "Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% sweat." This is his wisdom and his experience.
Keep working hard and persevere, and you will get what you want.
In addition, the ability of innovation and creativity is also related to age.
Psychologists found in their research that the best age for innovation and creation is between 25 and 40, which is the golden age for the easiest success.
American scholar Lyman began in the 1930s. Has been engaged in the research of the development of human creativity. He studied the ages and achievements of thousands of scientists, artists and writers, and he concluded that a person's age from 25 to 40 is the best age for career success.
Another scholar, Myers, thinks that from 18 to 49, people's ability development is almost at the highest level, especially their ability to compare and judge, which is very conducive to innovation and creation.
An authoritative organization once made a statistic and found that scientists and inventors who made1911year, the best age for their achievements is also between their twenties and forties.
There is an optimal age for creation and innovation, which does not mean that people are excluded from the possibility of achievement at other ages. Mozart discovered the third interval at the age of five and wrote a minuet based on it. Morgan was 60 years old when he published his genetic theory. Some scientists, politicians and entrepreneurs have even higher intelligence levels than their time after 50.
Here, our only hope is that we cannot abandon the idea of innovative thinking every day!