Look for new ideas to emulate, combine and adapt to your own situation. Good imitators go far and wide in search for fresh inspiration from diverse reference points and areas of life they don’t usually experience.
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Try drawing from your past experiences, hobbies or interests or looking for inspiration in completely new areas of life. This simple question is a great way to open your mind to think about your challenges in new ways.
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Do you ever collide together what you know from completely different areas of your life to see new connections, similarities and opportunities? It's sometimes called the 'polymath mindset'*, this is all about synthesising and combining apparently disparate ideas together in new ways to create novel solutions.
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When stuck on a challenge or problem, try thinking specifically about what you can learn from nature.
It’s a particularly fruitful area for inspiration and has led to many fascinating innovations; from hospital surfaces inspired by sharks, to the bullet train inspired by the kingfisher.
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What if we could learn something from improvising musicians, freestyle rappers and improv comedians?
One thing improvisers are taught is to think ‘YES’ (they have to run with whatever thread is thrown at them, it falls over if they block an idea) – quickly followed by ‘AND’ (as they have to the build upon the idea and add to it in some way).
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Embrace your natural curiosity - in the most unexpected places. Whenever you hear interesting facts, ideas or stories take notice and see what you could learn from them. Ask yourself what new learnings or fresh inspiration you could take to apply to your own challenges.
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