{"id":2594,"date":"2021-04-30T21:57:49","date_gmt":"2021-05-01T05:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/?p=2594"},"modified":"2021-04-30T22:03:16","modified_gmt":"2021-05-01T06:03:16","slug":"getting-out-of-imaginations-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/blog\/getting-out-of-imaginations-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Out Of Imagination&#8217;s Way"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2594\" class=\"elementor elementor-2594\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-016ef41 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"016ef41\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-8c7e363\" data-id=\"8c7e363\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-91ca883 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"91ca883\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oftentimes when we\u2019re trying to generate new ideas and creative solutions to intractable problems, we get in our own way.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We let what we know and our fear of looking foolish limit what we can imagine.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We think we\u2019re playing it safe by shrinking the solution space when what we\u2019re actually doing is suffocating our imagination\u2014the instrument most needed to solve stubborn problems.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New ideas and creative solutions to intractable problems come from expanding and exploring the solution space with reckless abandon. They come from considering completely different ways of looking at the problem and completely different architectures for the solution than what\u2019s been tried before.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New ideas and creative solutions come from getting out of imagination\u2019s way and allowing it to freely roam, wander, consider, and play with things that might not work.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When we do, we might discover a new idea or creative solution that just might work.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oftentimes when we\u2019re trying to generate new ideas and creative solutions to intractable problems, we get in imagination&#8217;s way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2596,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11,5,14,8,3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-change","category-design","category-empathy","category-facilitation","category-innovation","category-leadership","category-problem-solving"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Getting-Out-Of-Imaginations-Way.jpg?fit=1200%2C630&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2594"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2599,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594\/revisions\/2599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}