There are few ways to keep your enthusiasm alive in your research.
Break the patterns
Break your regular habitual patterns so that your brain pays attention. When I'm looking for ideas I often try to write or draw some thing with my left hand.
Stimulating environment
Out of our five senses eyes generates most of the information for brain. Make your room or working place to stimulate your brain. I put posters and charts around me and change them regular.
Keep notes
Always keep notes with you and note every idea you got. Review them every night. This exercise gave me to identify my thinking pattern and also helps in generating new ideas.
Draw instead writing
Practice to discuss your work using visualisation or a story board. I used to go to my supervisor with my notes and papers that I'm reading. These days I'm going with A3 charts for discussion. This helped me to talk better and even every session ends with new ideas to carry on further.
Divert yourself
Read journals or magazines that are completely unrelated to your work. Find analogies, associate those ideas with yours. Reading fiction helps you a lot to get ideas. Don't put any boundaries for what you read, who knows what fortune we will get from them.
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