How might making use of each of the following help overcome blocks to creative problem solving?

• watching a magician at work

• going to the theatre or the cinema

• family outings

• visits to junkyards

• mixing with or talking to different people – perhaps people whose value systems are different from your own

• day-dreaming to a sound-effects record

• free association to music

• browsing around flea markets

• scanning old science magazines

• reading historical accounts

• reading wants ads

• indulging in or watching sport

• studying new subjects through introductory-level books

• following the news – in the newspapers and on television.