- Example: Cooking can involve thinking outside traditional ingredients or uses for each ingredient.
- Reference: Karl Duncker, The Candle Problem.
- Insight: Recognising the capability of objects to serve other functions requires mental restructuring so we don't fall into our cognitive bias.
- Principles: (1) Understand the problem and the resources at your disposal (2) Break the problem into individual steps (3) Explore different possibilities for each step.