L-Creativity: Top 10 Creative Rules of Thumb
March 28th, 2005
- The best way to get great ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.
- Create ideas that are 15 minutes ahead of their time…not light years ahead.
- Always look for a second right answer.
- If at first you don’t succeed, take a break.
- Write down your ideas before you forget them.
- If everyone says you are wrong, you’re one step ahead. If everyone laughs at you, you’re two steps ahead.
- The answer to your problem “pre-exists.” You need to ask the right question to reveal the answer.
- When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer.
- Never solve a problem from its original perspective.
- Visualize your problem as solved before solving it.”
Charles Chic Thompson author of What a Great Idea!
See also:
- Cynthia Dunbar is scary (December 7th, 2008)
- Death threat as a motivation technique (May 23rd, 2008)
- What is being taught? What is being learned? (April 21st, 2008)
- It had to come from an educrat (April 14th, 2008)
- If you can’t join them, sue them (April 8th, 2008)

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