If you are interested in new ideas, invention and discovery then “How to Fly a Horse,” by Kevin Ashton, who coined the term the “Internet of Things” is a must read. It will certainly open your eyes to many terrible assumptions that are limiting your creativity and it may just change your life. It will certainly give you a lot more confidence to trust in your ability to see things that others haven’t and to understand where new ideas come from.
Just one hint – being creative is not about a eureka moment, it’s mainly about hard work and trial and error – sorry.