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Many Ways from Oshkosh to Albuquerque

Creativity Challenge 2001 #16

If you have read and down many of these Challenges you know that my philosophy behind creativity and creative thinking is that it is always our choice to be creative. We can accept that there is "no way" to get where we are going or to solve our problem, or we can decide to look for...

the right way
a way
another way
this way
that way
your way
their way
wrong ways
ways out
way-out ways
ways in
your own ways
future ways

Recently while at the American Creativity Association 2001 Conference in St. Paul one of the speakers was Charlie Girsch, a toy inventor and creativity consultant. I bought a copy of his book, Inventivity, after his presentation. It is filled with many idea and creativity sparkers. This week's CHALLENGE was inspired by one of his processes.

A.C.E. of Creativity is one of his tools. It is a basic form of "checklisting".

Adapt
Combine
Exaggerate

In it's place let's substitute C.R.E.A.T.E.

We will use it this week to jump out of our boxes and step back in refresh with new ideas and potential ideas to generate new solutions inside our boxes.

MONDAY Choose items within one of your challenges or from any challenge of your choice and make a list of 12 separate previously not thought of COMBINATIONS of ideas, details, actions.

TUESDAY Choose items within one of your challenges or from any challenge of your choice and make a list of 12 separate previously not thought of REVERSALS of ideas, details, actions or systems. Deliberately of ways to totally reverse 12 things related to your challenge.

WEDNESDAY Choose items within one of your challenges or from any challenge of your choice and make a list of 12 separate previously not thought of EXAGGERATIONS of ideas, details, actions. Be as absurd as possible in your EXAGGERATIONS.

THURSDAY Choose items within one of your challenges or from any challenge of your choice and make a list of 12 separate previously not thought of ADAPTATIONS/ALTERATIONS of ideas, details, actions.

FRIDAY TAKE your IDEAS back inside your "boxes" and TOTAL them up and EXAMINE them for possible use to solve your problem(s).

C.R.E.A.T.E.

COMBINE
REVERSAL
EXAGGERATE
ADAPT/ALTER
TAKE & TOTAL
EXAMINE

This should provide you with opportunities to DIVERGE and CONVERGE.

Also during the week visit Maria & Charlie Girsch's website www.creativitycentral.com

Have a highly creative week.

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