Way to Increase Creativity

Interestingly, the outcome of this is remarkably like Edward de Bono's suggestions to become more creative in thinking. An Easy Way to Increase Creativity: Scientific American: "what makes us more creative at times and less creative at others?
One answer is psychological distance. According to the construal level theory (CLT) of psychological distance, anything that we do not experience as occurring now, here, and to ourselves falls into the “psychologically distant” category. It’s also possible to induce a state of “psychological distance” simply by changing the way we think about a particular problem, such as attempting to take another person's perspective, or by thinking of the question as if it were unreal and unlikely."