Overcoming your Own Biases or How to Break Down your Functional Fixedness.

Try out these five steps:
1. Recognize the possibility that Functional Fixedness exists and that you may have some biases on an approach.
2. Check and evaluate each bias.
4. Look for the cause of bias to understand its source and impact on you.
3. Identify a goal, then identify which biases help with this purpose and which biases do not.
5. Monitor your progress and reevaluate your behavior.