Make your own observations and ask your own questions to find your own answers.
Ford Whitman Harris and exploration
Explore your field well, know its each and every nook and cranny, but do not shy away from its boundaries and do not avoid other territories. How and why we divided the knowledge of the world into different fields, no one can answer, but those arbitrary boundaries are there for you to send down under.
Vilfredo Pareto and interdisciplinary work
Sometimes the Arts pave the way for the Sciences and other times the Sciences paves the way for the Arts. Cultivate a taste for them both, as they are inseparable and they are one.
Taking a different perspective
The ability to change your viewpoint when looking at an object, a person (including yourself), a place, or a problem will allow you to think differently about the object, the person, the place or the problem.
Without a common language and a shared understanding, it may not be possible to truly collaborate where you can join forces to explore something new together.
In the early days of an interdisciplinary collaboration, there is a guest and there is a host. For the collaboration to bear fruit, both parties have to have the patience to stay together.
There is not a single well-defined strategy for initiating a successful collaboration. All it takes is a simple prompt and a willingness to understand and help understand.