It is one thing to decide that you would to be innovative. It is completely different to actually start using it. It can be hard to decide how exactly to use innovative thinking to better yourself and the world around you.
It is most likely that you already have a job and are not looking to quit to become an inventor who wastes away your days trying to come up with the greatest idea of all times. That is not what innovative thinking is all about anyway.
You can use innovative thinking in your current situation. All you have to do is start working with your creative thoughts.
Many times we simply push them away because our rational mind says they are not good enough or people would think we were crazy if we shared them.
Part of being an innovative thinker is not caring what others think. You have to be willing to put yourself out there and take criticism. You have to accept rejection will happen. Learn to take failure as a good thing. Learn from it and embrace it.
Here are some things you can do to help yourself become an innovative thinker:
- Ask questions. Question everything. Be like a two year old child and ask why. You may even know the answer already, but ask anyway. Questions lead to ideas.
- Compare things. Compare one thing to another and try to see what makes one better or more useful. Try to seek out things that are similar, yet different and figure out the best qualities of each and how you could put them together to make a unique product that has the best quality of each product.
- Think about what you want that you do not have now. Imagine the future and think about where technology is going. Try to come up with ideas about things that would make life easier or better. Even if these ideas are not plausible right now, just let yourself imagine what if.