Tom Kelly, general manager of IDEO, the world-renowned design firm, likes to quote French novelist Marcel Proust, who famously said, “The real act of discovery consists not in finding new lands but in seeing with new eyes.”
See the link below for a very interesting article on how to learn faster, and think differently.
http://blogs.hbr.org/taylor/2012/01/are_you_learning_as_fast_as_th.html