What a Surrealist Painting Taught Me about Innovation

How I learned to recognize and overcome the Einstellung Effect

Duing the initial months of the pandemic lockdown in 2020, I found myself in a home office that was almost completely undecorated.

I had a beautiful paint color (Benjamin Moore Jamestown Blue), but it was painted on four otherwise bare walls and around a window looking out onto my front lawn and garden.

I set about carefully acquiring artwork that was meaningful to me to surround me while I worked.