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Use Your Different Minds

Creativity Challenge 2001 #24

Over the past few weeks I have become aware of, purchased and begun to read the following three books about creative thinking.

  1. THE WRITER'S IDEABOOK by Jack Heffron
  2. FICTION WRITER'S BRAINSTORMER by James W. Smith, Jr.
  3. PENCIL DANCING by Mari Messer

Though I haven't gotten very far in any of them yet, I will be while I am at CPSI-47 June 13 to 21 and while I am traveling around the world this summer.

The next 13 CCs have been inspired by "prompts", "ideas" and "exercises" from these 3 excellent books about idea generating.

2001-24 comes from PENCIL DANCING by Mari Messer

2001-24 "Get Your Two Minds to Dance Together"

This was inspired by Chapter 12 in Mari Messer's book.

Since 1976 I have been involved with the development of programs and techniques for expanding creative idea and solution generation. Through working on my doctorate I became aware of personality and cognitive style theories and texts. Mari's chapter about getting our minds to dance together sparked this Challenge.

Using my version of the many, many cognitive style instruments let's examine and expand 4 separate styles of thinking.

Choose a personal or professional challenge/problem that you are working on currently to work on all week during your allotted 30 to 60 minutes for doing daily Creativity Challenges.

MONDAY Use a scientific, highly rational approach to your challenge. List all the details, the information. Organize the various pieces of information into logical categories. Examine and decide which are the most significant aspects of the problem that need to be dealt with. Then analyze what could be improved about 3 to 6 of the aspects

TUESDAY Use a highly divergent, imaginative approach to your challenge. Sit quietly and dream about your challenge. See it having been solved from five years from now or ten years from now. How was it solved how might it have been solved by yourself or others. Then write down what you experienced and decide what might you do right now to move towards solving your problem.

WEDNESDAY Take some time with a friend to go for a walk and talk easily about your challenge. In a fun way play with ideas. Record all the ideas that you come up with while you ride a carrousel or a roller coaster or while doing some other fun activity together.

THURSDAY Use a highly logical and sequential approach to analyzing your problem. Prioritize what needs to be worked on first. Use a very strategic approach to choosing which to do first.

FRIDAY Have fun using the approach that best fit you this week.

Have a great and creative week.

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