Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques (2nd Edition)
Michael MichalkoOriginal title: Thinkertoys : a handbook of business creativity for the '90s.
<p>This new edition contains updated examples, three new <i>Thinkertoys</i> and an entirely new group brainstorming section with five new chapters. Michael is also the author of Thinkpak (A Brainstorming Card Set), which is a novel creative-thinking tool that is designed to facilitate brainstorming sessions and Cracking Creativity (The Secrets of Creative Geniuses) which describes the common thinking strategies creative geniuses have used in the sciences, art, and industry throughout history and shows how we can apply them to become more creative in our business and personal lives.</p>
<p>From the Author<br>
Most people of average intelligence, given data or some problem, can figure out the expected conventional response. When confronted with problems, we fixate on something in our past that has worked before. We ask, "What have I been taught in life, education or work on how to solve the problem?" Then we analytically select the most promising approach based on past experiences, excluding all other approaches, and work within a clearly defined direction towards the solution of the problem. Because of the soundness of the steps based on past experiences, we become arrogantly certain of the correctness of our conclusion. Typically, we think reproductively, that is on the basis of similar problems encountered in the past. This is why we so often fail when confronted with a new problem that is similar to past experiences only in superficial ways, or on the surface, and is different from previously encountered problems in its deep structure. Interpreting such a problem through the prism of past experience will, by definition, lead the thinker astray. Reproductive thinking leads us to the usual ideas and not to original ones. If you always think the way you've always thought, you'll always get what you've always got--the same old, same old ideas. My "Thinkertoys" are creative-thinking techniques that will change the way you think. Each "Thinkertoy" contains specific instructions and an explanation of why and how it works including anecdotes, stories, and examples of how others have implemented the technique to produce their breakthrough ideas.</p>
Mind pumping
Challenges
Thinkertoys
False faces (reversal)
Slice and dice (attribute listing)
Cherry split (fractionation)
Think bubbles (mind mapping)
Scamper (questions)
Tug-of-war (force-field analysis)
Idea box (morphological analysis)
Idea grid (FCB grid)
Lotus blossom (diagramming)
Phoenix (questions)
The Great Transpacific Airline and Storm Door Company (matrix)
Future fruit (future scenarios)
Brutethink (random stimulation)
Hall of fame (forced connection)
Circle of opportunity (forced connection)
Ideatoons (pattern language)
Clever trevor (talk to a stranger)
Chilling out (relaxation)
Blue roses (intuition)
The three B's (incubation)
Rattlesnakes and roses (analogies)
Stone soup (fantasy questions)
True and false (Janusian thinking)
Dreamscape (dreams)
Da Vinci's technique (drawing)
Dali's technique (hypnogogic imagery)
Not Kansas (imagery)
The shadow (psychosynthesis)
The book of the dead (hieroglyphics)
Warming up
Brainstorming
Orthodox brainstorming
Raw brainstorming
Murder board
You are not a field of grass.
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