Daily Creative Thinking Development - Day Six
Daily Creative Thinking Exercises
Here is a system for improving your creative thinking traits, skills and
the tools and techniques you know and use.
We each can improve our creative thinking abilities
by improving them our creativeness will reawaken
and get stronger.
Try this simple approach Monday to Friday
a. read and think about a creativity quote
b. choose a creative thinking trait to think about and practice for that
day.
c. practice using one creative thinking tool that you know or learn a
new one.
i.e.:
A. Use Creativity Quotes each day.
4 quotes to consider today
Experts don’t always no ALL THE ANSWERS or are RIGHT ALL THE TIME.
IF ONLY THEY HAD THOUGHT ABOUT IT...
"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who
would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?" --David Sarnoff's
associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.
"The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn
better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible." --A Yale University
management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable
overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)
"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" --H. M. Warner,
Warner Brothers, 1927.
"I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and
not Gary Cooper." --Gary Cooper on his decision not to take the leading
role in "Gone With the Wind."
"A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports
say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you
make." --Response to Debbi Fields' idea of starting Mrs. Fields' Cookies.
"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way
out." --Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.
"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." --Lord
Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.
"If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment.
The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this."
--Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M
"Post-It" Notepads.
Here is one source of many resources for Creativity quotes:
B. Focus on one Creativity Trait each day to further develop it.
16. original
Being original is a driving force for creative people. They thrive on
it.
Spend time playing with or looking for ORIGINAL ideas.
Spend time playing with or looking for ORIGINAL ideas.
C. Practice using a different creative thinking tool each day.
S.C.A.M.P.E.R. Classic created by
Bob Eberle
Generate new or different ideas using VERBS, ACTION WORDS
S - Substitute
C - Combine 2 or more ideas
A - Adapt, Adjust, Alter
M - Minify, Magnify
P - Put to Other Uses
E - Eliminate
R - Reverse a function, order, step in a system
here is one resource for picking future tools and techniques:
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