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Did TV producer Lorne Michaels stay with the same cast of Saturday Night Live? No, he constantly looked for new talent, skits, and ways to present humor. He too, always on the quest for the next answer.

Did writer/producer Norman Lear stop creating TV sitcoms when All In The Family was a blow out success? No, he went 'Uptown' and everywhere else in his creative search because he kept generating the next idea.

Did Bill Gates stop growing his tiny company in 1975 or stop with his first successful idea, a prototype software package, and halt with the name Microsoft? No.

Mr. Gates went on to the next ideas, and still hasn't finished finding all of them. He eventually became the richest man in the world.

One way of looking at a problem just doens't cut it and certainly doesn't generate genius.

• So, how is this done? How can we start to 'awaken' creative genius? To explore this I lean heavily on a theory I've developed based on a comment by Charles DuBois. He said:
• "The important thing is this:
• to be able.
• at any moment to scarifice. that which we are for.

that which we could become."

• If we ponder these words carefully, and then ask ourselves: what stops us from creating more ideas and solutions, what makes us so satisfied with the one answer we usually can find? We discover a key in the above quotation from Dubois.
• Very often its because we cherish our current state, that immidiate solution, so much that we become too afraid or too timid in changing or discarding it. We've been taught, through education and experience, to be afraid of change.