


As you know if you have been following these posts, readers who are interested in enhancing creative problem-solving skills were encouraged to adopt a curious and open mindset that leads to seeking out information that is both specific to the problem and general in nature, to use a journal to keep track of ideas and information gathered through that process and to find ways to disconnect from the problem through exercise, meditation or other activities that allow for an uncluttered mind. The process that I am sharing in this series was chronicled by James Webb Young in his book, A Technique for Producing Ideas. In the previous posts, I made a case for the importance of creative problem solving in the entrepreneurial journey and outlined three of the five steps: gathering raw material, the mental digestive process and the role of incubation. A mind that is stretched to a new idea never returns to its original dimension.įor several weeks now, the Enfactor podcast blog has focused on the creative problem-solving process.
