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CREATIVE THINKING EXERCISE

Michael Michalko

If you were able to answer all of the above in a reasonable amount of time, you’ve demonstrated creative thinking abilities. Foot stool, foot powder, and football. call pay line. end burning blue. man hot sure. stick hair ball. blue cake cottage. man wheel high. motion poke down. line birthday surprise. wood liquor luck. ANSWERS: 1.

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Podcast S5E106: Rachel Audigé – Getting unblinkered and busting biases

Idea to Value

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with Australia’s top facilitator of Systematic Inventive Thinking, Rachel Audigé. 00:03:30 – What is Systematic Inventive Thinking (S.I.T.). 00:06:00 – What are biases and how do they affect innovative thinking.

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7 TENETS OF CREATIVE THINKING

Michael Michalko

What are the mental processes, attitudes, work habits, behaviors, and beliefs that enable creative geniuses to view the same things as the rest of us, yet see something different? You Are Creative. Artists are not special, but each of us is a special kind of artist who enters the world as a creative and spontaneous thinker.

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Harness the Random with this Method

Destination Innovation

The use of chance is a key element in lateral thinking. How can you deliberately introduce chance into your creative thinking? Taken from the e-book, How to Generate Ideas. The Random Word method is very good. Here is another brainstorm method for you to try – Roll the Dice.

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EXCESSIVE CREATIVE THINKING by Alan Black

BrainZooming

Based in Athens, GA, but a true global traveler, Alan’s mission is to travel the world to help spark the increased development of Creative Thinking everywhere he can in every way he can. Here is Alan’s take on pushing beyond a single answer to embrace excessive creative thinking! Instead of asking WHAT IS IT?

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Quantity breeds quality

Idea to Value

If you want to improve your creativity , what is more likely to make you better in the long run: Creating a large volume of average-quality work, or focusing on a single piece and working tirelessly to try and make it perfect? A large number of creatives think that in order to make anything worthwhile, you need to strive for perfection.

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Top 10 Must-Read Classics on Innovation Techniques

IdeaScale

Learn what works in innovation from these ten books. Here are ten books every innovator should crack as they build a new innovation approach. This book lays out how businesses can do everything right and still lose out on innovation. Thinkertoys , by Michael Michalko Creative thinking can be a struggle for some.

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