Learning to think like an artist means:

• Looking at things more closely than most people do
• Finding beauty in everyday things and situations
• Making new connections between different things and ideas
• Going beyond ordinary ways of thinking and doing things
• Looking at objects in different ways in order to generate new perspectives
• Taking risks and exposing yourself to possible failure
• Arranging items in new and imaginative ways
• Working hard and at the edge of your potential
• Persisting where others may give up
• Concentrating your effort and attention for long periods of time
• Dreaming and fantasizing
• Using old ideas to create new ones
• Doing something simply because it’s interesting and personally challenging to do