Creative Thinking: where do your best ideas come from?

IdeaChampions' When & Where Do You Get Your Best Ideas? survey was probably designed as a bit of fun but is worth completing.

For me, I need to get up from my desk and have a walk around/break every hour or so. This does not mean that my mind is functioning at its optimum for an hour at a time but a stretch can give it a kickstart. I understand in fact that our mind's span of concentration is much shorter.

Dave Pollard in How to Save the World used the survey to start his own analysis.

Jason Womack from David Allen Company has this post on Idea Creation and Execution (via the Innovation Weblog). He finds that coming up with ideas is different from executing them and uses "different tools and strategies to enhance the quality and quantity of ideas I have, and the project outcomes I manage."