Honestly, I’ve found that coming up with a way to teach it to someone else triggers my creativity. When I’m stuck in a rut, I take a bit of time out (maybe 20-30 minutes or so) and search for ways to teach _______ (whatever I’m researching) to anyone I choose – a child, a senior citizen, someone I’m training, a colleague. This usually gets my creative juices flowing and allows me to look at my research in a whole new light.

I don’t think that only hard, focused work will do it; Edison was an incredible out-of-the-box thinker to begin with, and saw patterns that nobody else did. He didn’t approach his work using strict scientific methods; rather, he just plain wasn’t afraid to fail and tried things that others dismissed as trivial or useless. He did work extremely hard, but that didn’t fully account for his success – others worked as hard as he did, but didn’t see the possibilities that he did.

In case someone naturally is creative and innovator, it is because he/she started the plan very early in life, before he/she even know to speak/walk, but made exploration habit(natural in every human being) a continuation in his/her future life.

At begining nothing will happen, but later you will start to act normally and with creativity. if you want to do something differently, first you need to know what is out there. Need research (deep or not) and than start from there.

A little brain storm or mind map will help to cultivate different ideas and will free your brain to navigate in different seas and come up with unusal solutions or situations, or ideas that seems to be original and with innovation somehow. You may think of a regular stuff (not novel at all) like a pic-nic and plan it in an uncommon place with different stuff (instead of hot-dogs and eggs) with different people than your relatives or closest friend. You may plan a game that you would never play at home or with people you want to show-up like “smarter” than they are. you can turn into a silly person, but you need to uncover your masks to be original, creative and innovative.

Example: a pic-nic in a ranch of yours or friend, with macarroni and cheese cooked on a fire (you need to bring your pots), with fresh squeezed natural orange juice, and play monopoly or build a 1000 pieces puzzle with the group.