Ellen, you ask a good question. Many work in toxic environments where creativity is shut down. There are several approaches:
1. Design an action plan and take steps to start your own business
2. Bring humor and positivity to those around you and "play with new ideas" as you work
3. Begin a job search to land the kind of job and work environment that bring satisfaction
4. Share your aspirations with other business leaders and gather their wisdom on how to make these a reality
Any additions?
Joanna, thanks, and I have to be pushed out of my favorite approaches as well. At times we get the impression if we can start out of our comfort zones that works best. But when it comes to creativity, just not so. When we take risks to enter a different environment, such as writing in the woods or a coffee house or during a during a symphony, the ideas will be very different. That's exactly why we need to push ourselves to the unfamiliar in relation to our task.
Interestingly, the quote in the blog and other points are from Gregory Burns, author of "Iconoclast," which was recently published. It doesn't surprise me that Steve Sherlock is as fascinated by and willing to learn from this research as much as we are, Joanna. 
I appreciate your thoughts on this topic!
What are you doing today to bring a newness your writing? I ask that of myself in relation to what I do, too. Keeps me from falling into comfort zones.
Jean, you bring out another aspect of our miraculous brain. Go to sleep with a question, the brain works on that as you sleep and often you waken with the answer, whether in the middle of the night or in the morning.
Thanks for your response.
Thanks for the jolt, Robyn! I have a question though What would you say to people who feel the jolt is barricaded behind a broken system that demands and rewards only routines from workers? Thoughts?
Robyn, thanks for the reminder. I do have ways to wake my brain up but I tend to rely on the same ones over and over. The music one 'speaks' to me each time you post one of these round ups, but for some reason I'm not experimenting. Must try harder!
By the way, by chance I just got sent this link by Steve Sherlock in response to a piece on creativity I wrote at JJL. It's got some very similar points -
“Did you know that when you see the same thing over and over again, your brain uses less and less energy? Your mind already knows what it’s seeing, so it doesn’t make the effort to process the event again. Just putting yourself in new situations can make you see things differently and jump-start your creativity.”
From someone called Gregory Berns
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MemoID=1784
No, my brain isn't lazy. If I'm not careful it wakes me up in the middle of the night with new ideas. I appreciate its efforts, but couldn't it wait until morning?
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