Creativity is the elimination of options. If you can't have fun with the problem , you will never solve it. The only valid test of an idea, concept or theory is what it enables you to do. In every adverse condition there are hundreds of possible solutions. You fail until you succeed.
Nothing fails like success.
I'm going to repeat the axioms below. This time they've been separated into groups. Think through what each group may mean and give it a name, or describe it in a phrase. The future is rational only in hindsight. Discovering you don't know something is the first step to knowing it.