As I read, I am inclined to think about what the late creativity maestro had asserted: 

“Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.” 

As the well-known productivity strategist Stephen R Covey put it so eloquently:

"The way you see the problem is the problem!" 

My point: Perception Always Precedes Thinking. 

You can't do things differently until you see - and then think - things differently!