Creative Imagination – A short sentence summary
1. Some bits and pieces about creativity in solving problems:
(1) State problem, etc. or Have a random session where anything comes to mind.
(2) Brainstorm — write down many possible solutions — anything goes.
(3) Time out — sleep, bike, do other chores, etc.
(4) Brainstorm some more. Possibly look at list of Creative Imagination next page.
(5) Restrict choices and choose. Creative Imagination list?
(6) Set new problem. Go to (1).
-Some advice:
(1) Don’t let assumptions stifle your creativity. Throw every one of them out.
(2) Look at all possible alternatives. Tell yourself you are creative.
(3) Make it a hobby? Pick a problem and solve it. Set modest goals.
Brainstorm:
– ask yourself questions.
– also look at the obvious.
– quantify.
– what else?
– plenty of variation.
– talk your problem out — prayer (talking to yourself) and meditation.
– social encouragement — talking it out.
– eventually narrow your target.
– Some categories —
Bloom’s Taxonomy: Knowledge, Understanding
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SET – each new time, link to something
Application to last time (by repeating?)
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— Summarize at end — go over what Analysis should be known, understood, etc.
Synthesis, Evaluation
CREATIVE IMAGINATION
Brainstorm — possibly look at after some brainstorming
4 ways of association:
(1) Contiguity — nearness
(2) Similarity
(3) Contrast
(4) Cause and effect
1. ALTERNATE USES:
(1) To what other uses could this be put? (thought, talent, principle, thing)
(2) In what other products could this be used?
(3) In what other ways could this be used?
(4) To what use can waste be put?
(5) What new use? What other use?
2. PARALLELS — make similar to:
(1) What is there like this, from which I might get an idea?
(2) Is there something similar I could partially copy?
(3) Whose style can I emulate?
(4) What can I make this look like?
(5) What can I copy into this?
(6) What other process could be adapted to this job?
3. MODIFY — make different. not:
(1) What if this were somewhat
changed?
(2) How can this be altered for the
better?
(3) How about a new twist?
(4) How could we do this differently?
(5) What change can be made in the process?
(6) How about changing the shape? In what ways?
(7) In what forms could this be? In what other package?
(8) Could the package be combined with the product to provide a new twist?
(9) What other changes can we make to provide more sense appeal? -colour, motion? – eye appeal – odor? – smell appeal – sound? – ear appeal – taste? – touch appeal
4. ADD, MULTIPLY, OR MAGNIFY +,_X, > :
(1) How about making it bigger?
(2) What strength can be added?
(3) What about extra value?
(4) Could this be multiplied?
S (5) How about more time?
I (6) What if this were done more often? Greater frequency?
Z (7) How could this be reinforced?
E (8) What can I add to make this stronger?
(9) What if this were higher?
(10) Should it be wider?
(11) Suppose it were longer?
(12) How about a jumbo?
_(13) What ingredient can be added?
E (14) What if I should duplicate this? What about more of the same?
X (15) How about doubling it?
A (16) How can I “kill 2 birds with one stone”?
G (17) What if this were duplicated on a large scale?
G (18) What if this were blown up to the n’th degree?
E (19) What if this were preposterously over-stated?
R (20) How could I carry this to such an extreme that it would really make a dent?
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SUBTRACT, DIVIDE, MINIFY -. /, <:
(1) What if this were smaller?
(2) What could I omit?
(3) What about dividing?
(4) How could we make this more compact?
(5) How about miniature?
(6) What if this were lower?
(7) How about less length?
(8) How about condensing?
(9) How about separating this from that?
(10) What if the weight were less?
(11) Could this be done faster? How could this be speeded up?
(12) What waste motions could be cut out?
(13) What can be eliminated?
(14) Suppose we leave this out?
(15) Why not fewer parts?
(16) Instead of eliminating parts, even whole units can sometimes be eliminated.
(17) Elimination of the objectionable?
(18) How can this be streamlined?
(19) What could be left unsaid?
(20) What if this were divided?
(21) Suppose I split this up?
(22) How about separating into assortments?
(23) How about partial division?
(24) How can we go at it piecemeal?
(25) What if this were said far short of the expected? Understatement — humor.
6. SUBSTITUTE:
(1) Substituting — changing this for that?
(2) What can I substitute? Trial and error?
(3) What else instead?
(4) What other part instead of this?
(5) Replace something with nothing?
(6) Changing components?
(7) What other ingredient?
(8) What other process? — Roasted, toasted, steamed, under pressure?
(9) What other power might work better?
(10) Who else?
(11) Who else could do this better?
(12) Where else? — may change emotional setting. I
(13) Substitute one interest for another?
(14) Sublimate?
7. RE-ARRANGE – PARTS. MANY ALTERNATIVES POSSIBLE. TRANSPOSE:
(1) How else can this be arranged?
(2) What if the order were changed?
(3) What about sequence?
(4) What should come after this?
(5) Should this come before that?
(6) What other layout may be better?
(7) Where should this part be placed in relation to that?
(8) Should the cart be put before the horse?
(9)What other floor plan would work better?
(10) What about cause and effect? — what if they were transposed?
(11) What other possible causes?
(12) What method of pay would provide the most incentive?
(13) What about timing?
(14) How about a change of pace?
(15) What if the tempo were changed?
(16) How about schedules?
(17) Should this be done earlier or later?
(18) What would be the best time for that? Time for irritation?
8. VICE VERSA — DO OPPOSITE:
(1) What about the opposite?
(2) What if this were reversed?
(3) What if this were upside-down? or up-ended?
(4) Why not turn it around?
(5) Why not try it on the other end?
(6) How about building it upside down?
(7) Why not have light go upward instead of downward?
(8) How about reversing the roles?
(9) How about transposing the use?
(10) Into whose should I put myself?
(11) How about a turnabout?
(12) How about saying it in reverse?
(13) How about doing the unexpected?
(14) What surprise can I pull?
(15) Opposite to the usual?
(16) Reverse tradition?
(17) How can I turn the tables?
(18) What if I turned the other cheek?
9. COMBINING:
(1) What if this and that were put together?
(2) What other commodity might well be merged with this?
(3) Combine this idea with that idea?
(4) What materials could I combine?
(5) What other article could advantageously be combined with this?
(6) What goes with this that might better be combined into a single unit?
(7) What can I combine to multiply the use?
(8) What could be done with combination in packaging?
(9) What could we do by way of putting things together in ensembles?
(10) How about assortments of assortments?
(11) Science creates largely by combination-compounding.
(12) Grafting?
10. LEAVING AS IS:
(1) Should things be left unchanged?
(2) What can I make a habit or routine so I don’t have to think anew each time I do it?
(3) Should I keep doing the same thing?
(4) “If a thing are not broken, why fix it”?
O. Hooge, Chilliwack, B.C., Canada
Naturalism and Religious Experience 