Creativity Challenge 2

This week's challenge is meant to provide practice with the use of one creativity concept and one creative thinking or idea generation tool.

Creativity Concept: Edward de Bono's "PO"

Tool: my A to Z

Step One
Take a piece of paper, your email screen, your computer screen so that you are not on line while doing the exercise and write A to Z.

Step Two
Now think up or look up professions or occupations that start with the individual letters (i.e.: a=architect, b=baker,bricklayer, bonds salesperson, etc.) Think up or look up one for each letter, 26 in all.

Step Three
Put the list away out of sight.

Step Four
Write to me to say you are ready for the challenge or to become involved as a reader & writer or reader alone.

Step Five
Edward de Bono's creativity tool "PO" lets us imagine that anything can be true. When using PO you simply write out statements that would normally seem absolutely impossible. Then you write the de Bono word PO immediately following your statement and accept it as possible. Then you work on creating ways to make it possible.

Combining PO with my tool A to Z you can do one of two things at least.

One
Randomly pick a profession, a to z then practice writing PO statements that might fit that profession.

i.e.: architect
"Buildings can be built in 6 hours or less. PO"

Then you work on generating ideas that might make the statement possible.

Second
Create a list of 12 or more PO statements then randomly choose a profession, a to z and then generate ways that profession might accomplish the PO challenge.

"Buildings can be built in 6 hours or less. PO"

c, l, f, m, p
cartoonist
lawyer
finance consultant
mason
plumber

How may these professions possibly make the statement become true.

The principle behind PO and A to Z is the generation and use of provocative statements to help spark ideas and creative changes of thought in order to change perspective or mindsets.

Hope this helps

Thanks for joining the CC family.

Alan