To limber up the creative thinking process:

Let your mind make free associations

Acknowkedge pain

Turn off the automatic pilot

Ask questions

Give yourself inner permission

Observe. Empathize. Don't pass judgement.

Remember and Recapitulate

Tell stories

Take time to think and daydream

Listen radically

Give yourself the freedom of doing it "wrong"

Steal for everyone

Don't run away from resistances

Improvise in your mind

Think out loud. Read out loud.

Never stop learning

Spnd tie with art, nature, children

Surround yourself with people who have feelings

Acknowledge mortality

Take responsability for your obsessions

Test your ideas

Don't stop until you come up with something

Follow impulses

Tell the truth. Life is to short to lie

- Judith Wiston in The Film director's intuition

(posted in a bar a Porto, Portogallo)