Creativity Challenge 7

Let's stretch our minds this week using an idea generator tool from Grace McGartland's book THUNDERBOLT THINKING from the center section of her book titled Tips and Techniques (TNT).

This is TNT #4 called "Brain Jolts"

It involves playing with analogies. She gives an example of playing with an analogy from nature to solve a mass production problem.

Problem: Potato Chips break too easily in packaging, shipping and storing.

Desired Solution: A way to package, ship and store potato chips so that they will not break so easily or at all.

Analogy: What in nature is like a potato chip?

What is about the same shape and has the same problem of easy breakage?

Your first challenge if you decide to take it before this self-destructs is to discover what was the solution for potato chips.

Your second challenge is the following:

Problem: Children being disruptive on a school bus and being very stressful for the bus driver, as well as, for themselves.

Desired Solution: School bus riding to be fun, enjoyable, beneficial and desireable, even for high school students (who hate them usually).

What in nature is like a school bus full of children? What is it about nature's solution that could help improve the situation or eliminate the problem?