f)Engagement in rest and unrelated activities. People who generate good ideas will allow for rest and engagement in unrelated activities, which allows unconscious processes to take over. It is at this point that insight is common. Having progressed past previous stages numerous times, solution presents itself when engaging in something completely unrelated.

g)Incubation. Following intense cognitive activity, it may be that problem is set aside. A solution may present itself at any point thereafter.

The above process can be learned, controlled and effective use of it is just as much a matter of practice as any tool. It explains why some people are more able to regularly generate a large number of diverse and novel ideas. Two relevant footnotes should be applied:

a)It is compelling that more complex problem, longer process.

b)Further, closer idea is to origin of S-curve (a measurement of impediments), greater number of intermediary issues requiring resolution before a solution can be obtained.

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Kal Bishop, MBA, http://www.managing-creativity.com

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