7 Good Minutes Break Through: Creative Problem-Solving When You Feel Stuck
Dec 8, 2025
Feeling stuck can lead to unexpected breakthroughs! Dive into techniques that shift your perspective and unlock creativity. Explore how asking the right questions encourages innovative solutions. Embrace childlike curiosity to reframe assumptions and discover new ideas. Learn to use productive procrastination and change your environment to stimulate fresh thinking. Identify hidden insights by discussing problems aloud. Trust the process—sometimes, being stuck is just the precursor to a brilliant solution!
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Stuckness Signals A Need To Shift
- Feeling stuck often signals you've hit the limits of logical approaches and need a different perspective.
- Clyde Lee Dennis explains that creative, intuitive parts of the mind make connections logic misses.
Use The Sideways Approach
- Try the sideways approach by approaching problems from an angle instead of head-on.
- Ask how a child or someone from another field would solve it to activate new neural pathways.
Do Productive Procrastination
- Do productive procrastination: shift to a different, low-demand task to free your subconscious.
- Use walks or mundane tasks to let your subconscious make connections and produce breakthroughs.