can jump our trains of thought onto new, innovative tracks.But

don’t bother trying to kill off old habits; once those ruts of procedure are worn into the hippocus, they’re there to stay.Instead,

the new habits we deliberately ingrain into ourselves create parallel pathways that can bypass those old roads.“The

first thing needed for innovation is a fascination with wonder,” says Dawna Markova, author of “The Open Mind” and an executive change consultant for Professional Thinking Partners.“But

we are taught instead to ‘decide,’ just as our preside nt calls himself ‘the Decider.’ ” She adds, however, that “to decide is to kill off all

possibilities but one.A

good innovational thinker is always exploring the many other possibilities.” All of us work through problems in ways of which we’re unaware, she

says.Researchers

in the late

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