Michael Michalko

MAY 14, 2022

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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Michael Michalko

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

For example, many famous artists have designed and mass-marketed consumer goods such as purses, T-shirts, messenger bags, and so forth for a handsome profit. We understand ideas and concepts in terms of their relation and opposition to each other. To get an alternative understanding, reverse an idea and see what new relationships are created.

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Michael Michalko

APRIL 13, 2022

Creative Corner Provide a special area for people to engage in creative thinking. Stock the area with books, videos on creativity, as well as learning games and such toys as beanbags and modeling clay. Let’s Do Lunch Encourage weekly lunch-time meeting of three to five employees to engage in creative thinking.

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Michael Michalko

APRIL 13, 2022

Creative Corner Provide a special area for people to engage in creative thinking. Stock the area with books, videos on creativity, as well as learning games and such toys as beanbags and modeling clay. Let’s Do Lunch Encourage weekly lunch-time meeting of three to five employees to engage in creative thinking.

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Creativity Brainstorming Creative Thinking Handbook 98

Michael Michalko

AUGUST 25, 2022

Using a technique I described in my book Thinkertoys (A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques) on how to find and force connections between a challenge and random stimuli, they randomly picked a picture of “Beehives.” This connection will lead to the discovery of an original idea or thought. This is what the engineers did.

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Michael Michalko

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Michael Michalko is the author of Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative Thinking Techniques; Cracking Creativity: The Thinking Strategies of Creative Geniuses; Thinkpak: A Brainstorming Card Deck , and Creative Thinkering: Putting Your Imagination to Work.

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Brainstorming Creativity Creative Thinking Handbook 98

Michael Michalko

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

CREATIVE CORNER Provide a special area for people to engage in creative thinking. Stock the area with books, videos on creativity, as well as learning games and such toys as beanbags and modeling clay. LET’S DO LUNCH Encourage weekly lunch-time meeting of three to five employees to engage in creative thinking.

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