The more expert you become in a field, the more mental shortcuts you build to solve familiar problems quickly. Those shortcuts are valuable, but they also become the walls of a mental cage over time.
Breaking an old thinking habit starts with noticing it: catching yourself reaching for the default answer before you have actually considered the problem.
Small, deliberate practices, such as asking a different first question, borrowing a method from an unrelated field, or forcing yourself to generate three answers instead of one, can retrain that reflex over time.
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