The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. — Albert Einstein
How to go to a new level of thinking #Template
• Go up a level of attraction or more
• Go Meta: Is this the problem I really want to be solving? The Real Problem? How can I reframe it?
• How was this TYPE of problem solved in another domain?
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• Go up a level of attraction or more
• Go Meta: Is this the problem I really want to be solving? The Real Problem? How can I reframe it?
• How was this TYPE of problem solved in another domain?
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• What are the limiting assumptions?
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Creative exercises:
How was this solved in nature?
What would be an "impossible" solution?
How would a criminal solve it? How could I make that legal and ethical?
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Creative exercises:
How was this solved in nature?
What would be an "impossible" solution?
How would a criminal solve it? How could I make that legal and ethical?
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• What's the bigger problem that's easier to solve that would solve this and other problems? (Bigger probs are often easier to solve: George Polya's "Inventor's Paradox." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inventor%…
• What's the simple solution that would reduce the problem?
• What would make the problem go away? (cease to be a problem, w/o solving it)
• How can we break it in order to fix it?
• What if we increased the problem?
Each of these is a gem, but you've got to give it time👇
• What would make the problem go away? (cease to be a problem, w/o solving it)
• How can we break it in order to fix it?
• What if we increased the problem?
Each of these is a gem, but you've got to give it time👇
Take each of these approaches and give your mind and/or your team time to mull over, associate, and find patterns. Sway with each of these approaches for hours & days, and keep coming back.
That's why Einstein was Einstein: He used his imagination as much as his knowledge.
That's why Einstein was Einstein: He used his imagination as much as his knowledge.
YOU CAN TOO. Apply your imagination to each of the above questions.
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution." —Einstein
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution." —Einstein
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