Here are a few techniques to help you get started looking for ideas you may already have inyour mind.

　　Play a ddferent role. Suppose you want to improve your company's training program. Play therole of another person. Write, from the perspective of that roie, what changes that personwould make. Record any interesting thoughts or new ideas.

　　Randomly pick something and compare it with your problem. Open a dictionary and randomly,without looking.pick a word. Force yourself to make a comparison between the problem andthe word. Suppose you are having a problem with a manager and you randomly pick theword"pencil". You might list the characteristics of thepencil and determine how thosecharacteristics are like your problem.

　　Imagine you have a magic wand (魔杖). Consider what changes or actions you will use the wandto create, especially those that wouldn't normally be possible. After letting your imagination run,ask yourself what specific features ofthose wishes particularly appeal to you. Think of somefeasible changes of actions thatembody some of those specific features.

　　Think outrageously. The more incredible and divergent from conventional thinking an idea is,the greater the possibilities for news. A frozen-fish processor used this technique. A line of hlsfrozen fish tasted bland and boring. He tried everything to improve the taste, includingkeeping the fish alive in holding fanks until he put a predator(食肉動物) in the holding tankwith fish. The fish kept moving to escape the predator and they retained their vitality andflavor.

　　Challenge assumptions. Reserve the assumptions you make about problems.List theassumptions and write the opposite. Henry Ford challenged the practice of having workers go towhere building materials were kept inorder to build cars, by creating a system that brought thematerials to workers instead. With this reversal, the assembly line was born.

　　Be an artist. Write a poem about your job. Poetry helps give a voice to your wildest imagination,which may lead to new ideas.

　　Try the above methods and test if your creativity might be somewhat improved.

　　[l]心理學家說區分有創造力的人和沒有創造力的人的一個因索就是信念——有創造力的人相信他們自己是有創造力的。為了有創造力，你必須要相信并在行動中顯示出你仿佛是有創造力的。一旦你相信你有創造力，你便開始尋找點子，想象各種可能的和不可能的解決問題的方法。

　　這里有幾個技巧可以幫助你觸發腦海里已經有了的點子。

　　扮演一個不同的角色。想象你要改進你公司的培訓方案。扮演另外一個人的角色。從這個角色的觀點出發，寫下他希望作出的改變。把那些有趣的念頭和新的主意都記錄下來。

　　隨便拾起什么東西，把它同你的問題進行比較。[2]打開字典，看也不看地隨手挑出一個詞。強迫自己拿這個問題和這個詞進行比較。假設你同經理之間出現了一個問題。你隨手挑出的詞是“鉛筆”，你可以把鉛筆的特征列舉出來，然后判斷這些特征同你的問題如何類似。

　　想象你擁有一根魔杖。考慮使用這個魔杖你可以創造怎樣的變化，做出怎樣的舉動，尤其是那些從常理上講不可能的事情。[3]在放飛你的想象力之后，問問自己那些格外吸引你的愿望有什么具體特征，并想出一些具有此類具體特征的可行的行動的改變。

　　馳騁想象。你的主意越不可信，同傳統思維越背道而馳，你就越有可能提出新的解決方法。[4]一個凍魚處理者就利用了這種技巧。他的凍魚原先嘗起來寡然無味。他想出了各種法子來改進魚的味道，包括把活魚養在儲存箱里。但是直到他在儲存箱里投入了一條肉食魚.才終于解決了問題。[4]為了躲開肉食錢，其他的魚不停地游動，這樣就保持了活力扣新鮮的味道。

　　對假說提出質疑。記錄下你對問題的假設，列出這些假設并寫出相反的情況。以前，在制造汽車的過程中，工人必須走到放置裝配材料的地方。對此，[5]亨利·福特提出質疑。他創造的體系可以把裝配材料送到工人面前，這樣一顛倒，裝配線誕生了。

　　做一個藝術家。寫一首關于你的工作的詩。詩歌可以讓你最大限度地發揮想象。而這些想象可能會帶來新的主意。

　　嘗試以上的方法，看一看你的創造力是否得到了加強。

　　1.According to psychologists, what can help to distinguish creative people fromothers?

　　2.To look for ideas, you are suggested to draw a comparison between the problemand_____________.

　　3.Feasible changes of actions that embody some specific features you desire can befound by__________.

　　4.It was found by the frozen-fish processor that the flavor of fish was retained whenthe fish regained their__________________.

　　5.By bringing the building materials to workers, Henry Ford created______________.

　　1.[Belief.]

　　[定位]根據psychologists查找到全文首句。

　　解析：題干中的distinguish對應原文中的differentiates，首句提到心理學家說區分有創造力的人和沒有創造力的人的一個因索就是信念，因此本題答案為Belief。

　　2.[the word randomly picked in a dictionary]

　　[定位]根據comparison between the problem查找到第4段前三句。

　　解析：第4段提出尋找點子的第2個技巧是在字典里隨手挑出一個詞，強迫自己拿這個問題和這個詞進行比較。因此本題答案為the word randomly picked in a dictionary。

　　3.[letting your imagination run/stretching your imagination]

　　[定位]根據Feasible changes of actions和specific features查找到第5段最后兩句。

　　解析：第5段末句講到，想出一些具有此類具體特征的可行的行動的改變。而由上句的“在放飛你的想象力之后”可知中這些行動的改變正是通過“放飛想象”而想出來的，因此本題答案為letting your imaginationrun/stretching your imagination。

　　4.[vitality]

　　[定位]根據frozen-fish processor查找到第6段。

　　解析：第6段末句提到，為了躲開肉食魚，其他的魚不停地游動，這樣就保持了活力和新鮮的味道。也就是說，當魚恢復活力的時候，新鮮的味道就被保留了，所以答案為vitality。

　　5.[the assembly line]

　　[定位]根據Henry Ford查找到第7段倒數第2句。

　　解析：原文該句提到，Henry Ford創造的體系可以把裝配材料送到工人面前，接著下一句提到，裝配線就這樣誕生了，因此本題答案為末句中的the assembly line。