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            • Ideas come from your experience and your 
              imagination. If you observe many things carefully and listen more 
              carefully on what other people are saying, you may get the oil for 
              your Aladdin lamp.  
             • When you are in the state of creativity, 
              never consider whether the ideas that pop up in your mind are good 
              or bad, silly or crazy. Just write it down (or use tape recorder 
              to record). The state of creativity is much weaker than the state 
              of considering. It is easily killed by any critics and consideration. 
              To start again, you need some time to warm up. Always think of what 
              are the possible things that you can do and not what will happen 
              if you do it. Thinking of the consequence of any action is in the 
              state of considering that will kill creativity state. 
             • Positive and possible thinking will bring 
              better and faster ideas. When you say it is not possible to solve 
              that problem, you have close your state of creativity and you may 
              produce nothing. In the other hand, when you believe that it is 
              possible, you may start to list what are the possible ideas.  
             • Always set the problem that you want to 
              attack or the purpose of ideas that you want to produce specifically. 
              The more focus and well define is your problem, easier for you to 
              produce more accurate ideas. 
             • Always bring a piece of paper and pen wherever 
              you go so that anytime you get some ideas, you may write it down 
              there. (Or you can bring a small IC recorder) 
             • Personal ideas gathering can be done whether 
              you are fully awake or sleepy. Ideas that come from your sleepy 
              state are even better because you may get many things from a dream 
              world.  
            
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