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Chapter 1 Chapter 1 Now The Rhode Island Boy’s Home stank as boys do. Not the kind of stink one remarks about the cruel, rude, and uncivilized behavior often associated with young boys. No, the ever-present stink of the twenty boys who occupy the former Waveland Mansion hidden off the back roads of Rhode IslandContinue reading “Jasper Berry: Out of Time”

Making connections is a key step in solving any problem. But, training our minds to seek and see connections regularly – every day – and mak

It’s harder thinking, but the results are more unique than the same path everyone walks down.

Our goal: 50-100 ideas. 2-3 of them good, wiz-bang, boss-impressing ideas.

They worked so hard to be “right” that they couldn’t do anything at all.

A perfect challenge for Creative Problem-Solving.

Here’s where I went wrong, and how you can avoid the same errors:

Ideas aren’t born fully-formed. One of the things I do as a creativity coach is teach people how not to kill ideas before they have a chance

The SCAMPER technique is also useful in your workplace for finding new ideas! Watch a demo below of how to use SCAMPER.

But, when I gave participants the chance to vote on their favorite ideas, almost all of their favorite ideas came from the third 1/3. Almost

Reasons number 1 and 2 are work. Reason number 3 is labor.

For schools: consider the notion that most school work is too much labor and no