Alan's Creativity Challenges 2003-51
What's Another Word For IT?Often I play with words as a way to spark my creative
thinking. Let's do that this week.
Begin with a basic word then move towards totally
random. Your tool for this week will be a thesaurius,
whether electronic or printed on paper.
MONDAY
Begin with the word creative. Intially think of as
many words that come to mine when you focus on the
word. Then take each of those and visit a thesaurus
and see how many words you can generate or find in 15
to 30 minutes. Review the words when your time has
ended. What did you discover that was new to you?
What patterns do you find?
TUESDAY
Begin with the word dull.
WEDNESDAY
Pick up a newspaper and randomly pick 6 words and do
the same thing as you did with creative and dull.
THURSDAY
Listen to a radio for 5 to 10 minutes and list words
you hear randomly. Then pick 6 of them and do the
same thing.
FRIDAY
Look at billboards or other forms of environmental
communication and choose 6 and use the same process.
What did you discover over the week?
Did you control your thougths or were they directed
randomly or intutively?
Have a creative week.
Happy Holidays,
Alan
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