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Mop Handle, Sword or a Staff

Creativity Challenge 1998 #1

Let's begin a second year of developing and practicing our Creative Thinking Skills

In 1982 Gerard I. Nierenberg (The Art of Negotiation author) published a book titled: The Art of Creative Thinking (Cornerstone Library). Two quotes from it are the basis for this week's challenge.

"Children must have an inexhaustible ability to think, do and say things that are new, fresh and even quite unexpected." p.19
"...children are forced to be creative. They must deal with events without the benefit of experience. thanks to adults. . .
They have not just 'learned' from their experiences; they are frozen into them." p.41

Let's think (create) like children this week.

Jonathan Winters and Robin Williams come to my mind as adult-size children who demonstrate the abilities to think (create) spontaneously with or without experience. They both let their minds go wherever they go.

Try this this week each day Monday through Friday for 10 to 15 minutes at breakfast or lunch or dinner. I suggest breakfast or during your commute to work or school.

Pick an object and imagine it as 12 to 24 different things.

Often in the past when Jonathan Winters would guest on the Jack Parr Show or his own television show he would pick up an object and "pretend" with it (not just play with it) as if it was an endless number of things.

A mop handle might become...

a sword, baton, oar, flag pole, hard macaroni, dead snake, a Martian space ship.......

Pick an object each day and "pretend" with it (12 to 24 different ways)

Please share one day's production of "pretend".

Some suggested objects are....

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