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# [Stuck Creatively? Turn Everything Upside Down for Creative Ideas](https://www.brainzooming.com/blog/stuck-creatively-turn-everything-upside-down-for-creative-ideas)

 Written by [Mike Brown](https://www.brainzooming.com/blog/author/mike-brown) | Jan 20, 2012 10:50:14 AM

If you're stuck in the snow or stuck creatively, don't walk right past the opportunity to turn everything upside down for new creative ideas. What if you . . .

- [Start at the end](http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203550304577138892700746530.html?mod=googlenews_wsj)?
- [Do the opposite](http://youtu.be/cKUvKE3bQlY) of everything you know?
- Act as if [the problem you're concerned about didn't exist](https://plus.google.com/114821712131163652030/posts/4W9fb9YyWM2)?
- [Use up a precious resource when you don't need to](https://www.brainzooming.com/sports-strategy-lessons-week-use-what-you-dont-have-wisely/921/)?
- Make your [snowman ](https://www.brainzooming.com/the-most-ginormous-snowman-ive-ever-seen/6490/)stand on its head?

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Hats off to a family in Hays, KS (my hometown), who used a big pre-Christmas snowstorm to not get stuck creatively by building a snowman who has his head on the ground and his feet - if they were still there - way up in the air!  – *[Mike Brown](https://www.brainzooming.com/?page_id=1197)*

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