6 unique perspectives to tackle your most vexing challenges

Has your creative muse has left you high and dry? Try this “sleight of head” brainstorming technique!

Don’t you hate when this happens?

You’re facing a formidable challenge and your brain just shuts down.

No fresh ideas.

Zip.

Zero.

Nada.

Zilch.

It’s super frustrating!

When that happens, it’s time to step outside of your habitual paths of thinking to view your challenge from new, more creative perspectives.

One way to do that is to view it through a set of six, three-dimensional lenses. This simple “sleight-of-head” 3-D thinking exercise can reveal a wealth of fresh insights and ideas.

Picture three double-ended arrows: The first imaginary line points right and left, the second one forward and backward, and the third line points up and down.

These three lines share a common intersection, so they look like a single point with six arrows radiating from it, each one 90 degrees apart — in other words, a visual representation of 3D space.