One way to increase one’s creativity is to add some distance between you and the issue. Have a problem? Determine how someone else might respond. Or treat the problem as if it were “unlikely.”
Oren Shapira and Nira Liberman write in Scientific American that treating things in the abstract (in this case, by lending distance) gives the mind the ability to look at something differently with fewer concrete constraints.
The end of the article has suggestions on some simple steps to use distance to increase creativity.

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