Sometimes we want ideas to come to us quickly, but that’s not usually the case. Instead of waiting for an idea, we can do various exercises to stimulate our minds.
One good exercise, is to read a book starting with the last page and guess or predict what’s on the previous page. This exercise will help in getting us to think in multiple ways not just think one way.
Another way of enhancing our ability to come up with new ideas, is to first think of a problem, get a dictionary and close our eyes while opening the dictionary and point to a page. And then we open our eyes to see what word is pointed to. Then we think of how we can use the word in relationship to solving a problem.