The Kaleidoscope Mind

Laura Seargeant-Richardson, writing for The Atlantic, describes a key to flexible thinking (aka creative thinking) is to slightly change the context of the idea. She cites how learning a skill can change the way we think about it, e.g. riding a motorcycle. Once we've learned to ride, we become more aware of the experience around us. So, by examining how we relate to an issue via alternate contexts, we may be able to build our ability to think flexibly.

A quote of particular interest: "As biochemist Szent Gyorgyi once said, 'Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.'"