What the article doesn't touch is how to stay creative. One of computer scientific ways is to be epsilon-greedy, meaning everytime you have an action to take,

What the article doesn't touch is how to stay creative. One of computer scientific ways is to be epsilon-greedy, meaning everytime you have an action to take, you do (1-epsilon) (so 90% if epsilon = .1) times what you think is best and epsilon times something completely random. Of course, that is a heuristic that doesn't really make sense without a context because you wouldn't want to do it in your job interview or your marriage proposal. The other extreme is following the following quote which I find quite inspiring: If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough (attributed to Alan Key but who knows) While that's quite a high bar I personally do something quite different: When I see something strange happening, e.g. a bird landing right in front of you and looking at you, or you have a deja-vu or you see somewhere some strange reference that looks like a message that only you can understand because it's something that happened in your past, then I'm going to take the other choice. It happens a few times in a year and mostly biases explorative actions towards when I have a congnitive surplus anyway cause otherwise I wouldn't perceive the strange event in the first place.