Teach an old dog new tricks and Create more new NOWS.   In November 2008 i was at The World Creativity forum. (http://www.flandersdc.be/en) I love going to events and seminars, especially when innovative people are there. To re-invent yourself, to really grow and expand your awareness, to be innovative and creative; you have got to do something ‘out of the ordinary’ or ‘get inspiration from people who do or see something completely different’. You might as well do every day something that you have not done before… small approaches change the bigger picture. And start with leaning something new, like playing the piano or painting. I did not know Tom Kelly he spoke at the forum. He opened the value of Anthropologists approaches and came with the word: Vuja dé … as I later found out … again. In plain English you would call it: phenomenology. Lao Tse, Heraclitus , Proust and many others were before him. but he re- introduced the term in a functional way… as a prescription in the business or life context. Bob Sutton at Stanford calls ” Vuja dé.” Vuja de happens when you enter a situation you’ve been in a thousand times before, but with the sense of being there for the first time. Marcel Proust, “The real act of discovery consists not in finding new lands but in seeing with new eyes.” So if you want to find untapped innovation opportunities, watch the world around you with “fresh eyes.” You do not have …