Overcoming Our Rigidity, Opening Our Minds

Ben Weinlick has a terrific article over at The Creativity Post blog.  The post is titled, "Defeating Rigid Habits to Spark Creativity."  He has some good suggestions including:

• Defeat habits by being curious about interesting ideas and interesting people
• Defeat habits by engaging lots of interests and hobbies
• Defeat habits by consciously shaking up routines
• Defeat habits by asking the “dumb questions”
• Defeat habits by hanging out with weird
• Defeat habits by focusing on a problem and then letting go; do something totally different
• Defeat habits by including people in your projects who are from outside your domain
• Defeat habits by developing a culture of serious play.