Twelve Ways to Think Different(ly)
All the details (lots of 'em) here
Meanwhile, the list:
1. Meditation
2. Reconnect With Your Senses
3. Reconnect With Your Intuition
4. Analogies and Metaphors
5. Conversations and Interviews
6. Synthesis, Distillation and Restatement
7. Reading (and Writing) Fiction
8. Psychoactive and Other Drugs
9. Learning a New Language:
10. Learning Something Outside Your Comfort Zone
11. Do Impulsive and Serendipitous Things
12. Collaboration