Divergent Thinking

This kind of exercise develops flexibility in your thinking skills, which will really help you solve problems more effectively.

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Divergent thinking requires you to come up with many solutions to a problem or many different ideas about a topic. Any ideas that you have are valid and anything you can imagine is acceptable. This kind of thinking requires you to be wildly and uninhibitedly imaginative. Forget about what is practical and appropriate, and especially what is known, and stretch your imagination.

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Yes, you can imagine yourself in different situations (what if you were stranded on Mars or on an island after a plane crash, or what if you had to create a gift with what you have in your home instead of buying something or what if ...).

 As with divergent thinking exercises, the basic rules are:

• Work as quickly as possible and aim to finish in 10 minutes.
• The quantity of ideas is more important than quality.
• Do not analyse, criticise or judge your ideas. Just write them all down without analysing them.
• Write in shorthand rather than in full sentences so that you can work more quickly.
• Have fun!

As quickly as you can, write down all the different uses you can think of for:

a rake
a bookcase
a picture frame
a shirt
a spoon
a table

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