Mind wandering can release you from fixation partly because it brings in new stimuli with no responses. The test that's typically used in creativity and even in engineering design courses is to come up with new uses for a brick. We looked at sketches and that is one way, that active way, that designers come up withnew uses - they make a sketchy sketch. So we knew that would help. And the new things turn out to be new perspectives, new really ways of organizing the visual,. whatever you're seeing visually.

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