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Taking some advice off of an internet site on creativity, has given me the idea of learning to do thought experiments. Posing a question in my mind, and seeking to find an answer through thought visualization. Forcasting my mind into the future, or into deeper realms in an attempt to seek an answer.

This is something Albert Einstein did with amazing precision. This quote is taken from www.whyfiles.org, commenting on how Einstein's brain worked:

[Einstein had]
"An insistence that the separate laws of physics could be brought together into one set that is true everywhere in the universe (this is not a reflection of physicists' megalomania -- but rather their esthetic preference for the simple and universal).

*A great ability to visualize interactions in nature, which he used in his characteristic "thought experiments." Einstein was neither the first nor the last scientist to use these free, useful experiments, but he had unequaled ability to interpret them.

*A deep intuition into the essential elements of a problem.

*Great power of concentration, even in a crowd."

Einstein used his mind to develop theories of nature. He studied what was around him, and using all his intellect, he wrote down about his discoveries until he reached a certain theory asertaining to what he could see.

After watching the video my grandpa let me borrowed on Einstein called, "How I See the World" it sheds a little bit of light into an idea of how I should train my mind to solve problems. Einstein did not give up on a problem. With persistence he persued it years after others would have let it go. Time was not an issue, for death is the only true perspective that time can be measured in.

Also written in the Einstein article it mentions Einstein's belief that nature is simple and beautiful. Not complex. Everything can be reduced. There are certain underlying principles that accompany the whole universe.

This other website, www.wilywalnut.com, as silly as it sounds, poses some good ideas on creativity and thought experiments. Asking simple "What if.. " questions. Like "what if I was a genuis?", "what if i knew how to solve any problem", "what if I worked harder than anyone else". Then visualizing the answers.

Also other examples are, "if I was... ", and "what would happen if... ". Questions like that. These are great techniques to explore the realms of creativity.

Try them out.