This week's Challenge was sparked by "Jack R. Tally", a member of the CREATIVITY email list. When I asked people on a mix of creativity focused email lists for their favorite creative thinking tools one that Jack mentioned was....
 
associational connections/chaining

This technique I know as the technique of taking two totally unrelated things or ideas or people and deliberately looking for the associations, connections, links between them.

Often I have read stories, anecdotes or examples from noted creative people from science, engineering, invention, the arts, architecture, design of how they used this technique whether they considered it a conscious technique or not.

So this week let's practice finding, discovering, creating "associations", "connections", or "links" between things.

• Monday list 6 to 12 "associations", "connections", or "links" between a frog and a concrete block.
   
  
• Tuesday list 6 to 12 "associations", "connections", or "links" between your favorite automobile and a baseball game.
   
  
• Wednesday list 6 to 12 "associations", "connections", or "links" between a prune and the government of your town.
   
  
• Thursday list 6 to 12 "associations", "connections", or "links" between ice cream making and space travel.
   
  
• Friday list 6 to 12 "associations", "connections", or "links" between squirrels and a printed calendar.

Please share your results.

Have a very creative week!

Alan