cnbc – “Creativity is like a muscle. The more you exercise it, the better you’ll be at coming up with innovative solutions and ideas at work. One of the most effective ways do this is to train your brain to see and notice opportunities. Often you can find needs or problems hiding in plain sight all around you, and once you notice them, you can put your thinking skill to work and tackle things that really matter.  As a director at Stanford University’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (also called “the d.school”), there are three powerful exercises we teach our students — each one has its own unique way of training our brains to think smarter, stay mentally sharp and solve problems faster…”