Keeping it fresh

A little while back I read Sticky Wisdom by the founders of ?What if! - the innovation consultancy. One of the key factors they identify as crucial to creative thinking is freshness - putting yourself in new spaces that open your eyes to different ways of thinking.

The web, and particularly the blogosphere can be the oft discussed echo-chamber in which you hear only what you say and think echoed by many like-minded souls. Alternatively, it can be the source of much freshness and challenging thinking.

Since reading Sticky Wisdom, I've been working at freshness and opening myself up to different ways of working and thinking. I was delighted, therefore, to come across rodcorp; and most particularly, the blog's category How we work - an ever growing set of nuggets from a wide range of sources on how people go about working. What does a writer do to force those first few paragraphs onto the blankness of a crisp white page first thing in the morning? How does a photographer keep the inventiveness flowing? What does an business leader do to stop mental and technical congestion?

Link: rodcorp.