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<\/figure>\n\n\n\n- Slow down. Give yourself time and space.\u00a0<\/strong>Never be in more of a hurry than you have to be. Allow time for thinking, musing, just noodling around in your head with no apparent purpose. Give space in your thinking for ideas you haven\u2019t had yet; allow openings for sniffing out the ideas of others. Haste is the enemy of creativity. Being busy all the time is a great way to stop any possibility of breakthroughs. You won\u2019t break out of your old habits by rushing. When people are under pressure, they don\u2019t have energy to try anything new. They reach for whatever they\u2019ve done before, or for some supposedly \u201ctried-and-true\u201d answer. They don\u2019t believe they have time to take risks with change. As a result, they rush headlong down the same old paths into the same old messes. Refuse to be hurried and surprising ideas and opportunities may present themselves.<\/li>
- When you think you\u2019ve gone absolutely as far as you can, keep going<\/strong>. You\u2019ve just reached the starting point. Breakthrough can\u2019t happen until you pass the boundaries you believe are there in your life and thought. If you find a boundary, be happy. You\u2019ve just found what you need to break through. Learning and creative thinking are your only sources of sustainable competitive advantage. Never let anything close them down.<\/li>
- Take your mind and thinking on trips away<\/strong>. Deliberately step outside your comfort zone. See what you can find. You may come back a changed person. Conservatism is the philosophy of always sticking with what you have and trying to defend it against change. It\u2019s a hopeless attempt. The best, longest-lasting and most valuable ideas remain because they continually adapt to the times. There\u2019s a word for things that don\u2019t change . . .\u00a0dead<\/em>. The world is bigger, stranger, more wonderful, and less predictable than you imagine. You won\u2019t find it limited to programs on your TV, or what you can find on the Internet, or what the media present to you. Go out there and look for yourself.\u00a0<\/li>
- Listen. Listen to everyone you can.\u00a0Really<\/em>\u00a0listen<\/strong>. You don\u2019t learn by talking about yourself and your own experience. You learn by listening to the ideas and experiences of others. By listening to the ideas of those around you, you can pick up whatever\u2019s useful. Even the things you reject have taught you something\u2014if only what to avoid. Everyone you talk with can bring you learning opportunities you might otherwise have missed. Never be snobbish either. The best lessons come in unexpected packages. One of the hallmarks of the fool is that he or she thinks learning is restricted to the \u201cright\u201d situations and people. Like birds of a feather, fools flock together, reinforcing their foolishness by deciding they\u2019ll only listen to one another. Wise people know they can\u2019t predict who or what will provide the best lessons in life. Sometimes it will be the voices all the \u201cright\u201d people have rejected.\u00a0<\/li>
- Delight in\u00a0metaphors<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0analogies<\/a><\/strong>. Every object or idea can stand for something else, or suggest an unexpected link. Dull people restrict their thinking and reading to what seems obviously relevant. Clever ones peer into what isn\u2019t. You\u2019ll maybe discover far more about working life from poetry, philosophy, or good novels that you ever will from business books and self-satisfied self-help writers.<\/li>
- Run away from any kind of dogma<\/strong>. Dogma is the product of a closed mind. It\u2019s an idea with a threat attached. If you suffer from dogma, get it out of your life. Let it go. Kick it out. Try thinking the opposite. Treat it like a crazy joke. Do anything you can to get rid of it. It\u2019s the greatest source of barriers to breakthrough.<\/li>
- Never aspire to be fashionable<\/strong>. Fashion is the foolish imitating the arrogant. Being cool is fear of change dressed in designer clothes. Following fashion is a sure way to prevent any kind of breakthrough in your life. Free yourself from barriers like this. Be who\u00a0you<\/em>\u00a0are, not who everyone else is\u00a0pretending<\/em>\u00a0to be.<\/li>
- Stand on the shoulders of those who went before you<\/strong>. You\u2019ll see so much better and farther. Never imitate the past. Use it to understand better and provoke questions in your mind. History is too often neglected as a source of breakthroughs. By learning from what has already been done, you can make faster steps towards what hasn\u2019t. Innovation is mostly sticking things together in unexpected ways. To create unique ideas and stimulate breakthrough thinking, hybridize from what you have already. Fresh combinations of old ideas can yield entirely new avenues of exploration. It\u2019s simply not true that creative people come up with ideas from nowhere. Even the most startlingly innovative people need material to work with.<\/li>
- If it\u2019s habitual, consider dumping it<\/strong>. Habits are the iron bands that hold you in your current ways of thinking and behaving. No one ever made a breakthrough without letting go of whatever has become habitual and automatic. Breaking those tough old habits won\u2019t be easy. You may have to endure some \u201ccold turkey.\u201d It will be well worth it.<\/li>
- Begin anywhere<\/strong>. There\u2019s no right place, nor any better place to start from that where you are right now. Waiting to find the right time and place to begin on your quest for breakthrough is a sure way to induce paralysis. New ideas arrive unexpectedly. Whenever they do, allow them to be heard. Learn to be alert always for good ideas and opportunities for breakthrough. Be flexible. Grab opportunities when they come. Don\u2019t sit back and expect another one to be along in a moment. The universe isn\u2019t like that. The idea or opportunity you just chose to ignore may have been the best one you\u2019ll ever have. Begin anywhere. Begin now. Just do it. #freedom #breakthrough #success #inspiration #talent #happy #fulfillment Check out https:\/\/alignvine.com\/core-fusion\/<\/a><\/li><\/ol>\n<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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You\u2019ve just reached the starting point. Breakthrough can\u2019t happen until you pass the boundaries you believe are there in your life and thought. If you find a boundary, be happy. You\u2019ve just found what you need to break through. Learning and creative thinking are your only sources of sustainable competitive advantage. Never let anything close them down.<\/li>