没灵感又没创意？5招让你拥有更多新想法

Computer programmers have their own favorite magazines, architects know which magazines are hot for architecture and so on. The problem with this is that everybody will be subject to the same stream of ideas. By going into a magazine store and randomly picking a magazine that might be about knitting and then actually reading it you will most likely find that the things you are thinking about have been solved already in another domain. Free ideas (except for the price of the magazine)!
程序员有他们自己最喜爱看的杂志，建筑师们知道哪些杂志是建筑方面的前沿期刊，等等。有一个问题是，大家都会受限于同一潮流的想法。走进杂志店，随便拿一本杂志阅读，也许这本杂志是有关针织的，你很可能发现你一直在思考的那些事已然在其它领域里得到解决了。这些想法都免费哦（当然你得为杂志买单）！

4. Force yourself to make connections.
强迫自己建立联系

This is a little game you can play with yourself, pick random things around your house (or even better, out of a bag) and force yourself to make connections between the object and the problem or project you are working on. Keep doing it for 10-15 minutes and see what happens.
这是一个你可以和自己玩的小游戏，在屋里随意挑一些东西（或包里也行），然后强迫自己建立联系，比如在物品和问题之间，或是物品和你正在进行的项目之间。花上10到15分钟，然后看看效果如何。

5. Self impose limits.
自我设限

By imposing limits on yourself your brain will have to work overtime and really get out of its own patterns. If you work with tools, remove the tool you use most frequently and ask yourself how you can accomplish a task in this new situation. Or, why not force yourself to explain a problem without using “shop talk”.
通过自我设限，你的大脑就不得不加班加点，这就走出了它固有的模式。如果你工作时需要工具，把你最常用的工具拿走，然后问问自己在这种新情况下你能如何完成这项任务。或者，尝试强迫自己在不用专业术语的情况下解释这个问题。

What next?
那下一个是什么呢？

The ideas above can of course be refined and substituted for lots of other ideas. As long as what you do forces new input on you, you will benefit. Also remember that it will be up to you to sort through and pick the best ideas. At least this way you will have more of them and they will be influenced by a larger space of knowledge and that is the key.
以上想法当然可以细化，或用其它想法替代。只要你能产生新的输入，你就有收获了。此外要记住，整理并挑选出最好主意的人是你。至少这样你会有越来越多的想法，它们也会受到广博的学识的影响，而这才是关键所在。