Comments on: How to Find Creative Solutions to Non-Creative Problems http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2008/01/08/how-to-find-creative-solutions-to-non-creative-problems/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:53:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Study Matrix Blog - Awaken Your Problem Solver from Within - Mind Map http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2008/01/08/how-to-find-creative-solutions-to-non-creative-problems/comment-page-1/#comment-207398 Study Matrix Blog - Awaken Your Problem Solver from Within - Mind Map Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:11:26 +0000 http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2008/01/08/how-to-find-creative-solutions-to-non-creative-problems/#comment-207398 [...] How to Find Creative Solutions to Non-Creative Problems @ Scott H Young [...] [...] How to Find Creative Solutions to Non-Creative Problems @ Scott H Young [...]

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]]> By: Bigger Faster Stronger » Blog Archive » How to Find Creative Solutions to Non-Creative Problems http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2008/01/08/how-to-find-creative-solutions-to-non-creative-problems/comment-page-1/#comment-125118 Bigger Faster Stronger » Blog Archive » How to Find Creative Solutions to Non-Creative Problems Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:45:30 +0000 http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2008/01/08/how-to-find-creative-solutions-to-non-creative-problems/#comment-125118 [...] unknown wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptWith our gym example, you might need to engage in a destructive phase if you’ve been planning to exercise for months but haven’t started. If you’ve purchased dozens of pieced of exercise equipment, clothes and books but haven’t ran … [...] [...] unknown wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptWith our gym example, you might need to engage in a destructive phase if you’ve been planning to exercise for months but haven’t started. If you’ve purchased dozens of pieced of exercise equipment, clothes and books but haven’t ran … [...]

]]> By: Nathan Ketdever http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2008/01/08/how-to-find-creative-solutions-to-non-creative-problems/comment-page-1/#comment-124904 Nathan Ketdever Fri, 11 Jan 2008 13:46:23 +0000 http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2008/01/08/how-to-find-creative-solutions-to-non-creative-problems/#comment-124904 Free writing, by writing down everything you think of in 5 minutes or 15 minutes can be helpful. It forces you to get all your ideas on paper quickly--so its a productivity hack too. If that tactic doesn't work I find that reading, listening to music, or watching an inspiring movie spurs creativity and innovation. Flipping through a magazine or looking at art or photography can have similar effects. Finally, I find that when I think of the metaphors involved or looking for comparisons that my creative juices usually get flowing. Free writing, by writing down everything you think of in 5 minutes or 15 minutes can be helpful. It forces you to get all your ideas on paper quickly–so its a productivity hack too.

If that tactic doesn’t work I find that reading, listening to music, or watching an inspiring movie spurs creativity and innovation. Flipping through a magazine or looking at art or photography can have similar effects. Finally, I find that when I think of the metaphors involved or looking for comparisons that my creative juices usually get flowing.

]]> By: jd http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2008/01/08/how-to-find-creative-solutions-to-non-creative-problems/comment-page-1/#comment-123984 jd Thu, 10 Jan 2008 04:41:41 +0000 http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2008/01/08/how-to-find-creative-solutions-to-non-creative-problems/#comment-123984 Good write up. I like to use "hats" to switch perspective. One hat is possibility ("how could this work?"), another Devil's advocate ("why won't this work?"), and another is feeling ("what's your gut say?") and another is facts/figures ("what's the data say?") Good write up.
I like to use “hats” to switch perspective.
One hat is possibility (“how could this work?”), another Devil’s advocate (“why won’t this work?”), and another is feeling (“what’s your gut say?”) and another is facts/figures (“what’s the data say?”)

]]> By: Dagens länkar 2008-01-09 « Systemkollaps http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2008/01/08/how-to-find-creative-solutions-to-non-creative-problems/comment-page-1/#comment-123669 Dagens länkar 2008-01-09 « Systemkollaps Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:53:50 +0000 http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2008/01/08/how-to-find-creative-solutions-to-non-creative-problems/#comment-123669 [...] Hur man hittar kreativa lösningar på ickekreativa problem. [...] [...] Hur man hittar kreativa lösningar på ickekreativa problem. [...]

]]> By: Scott Young http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2008/01/08/how-to-find-creative-solutions-to-non-creative-problems/comment-page-1/#comment-123618 Scott Young Wed, 09 Jan 2008 13:27:59 +0000 http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2008/01/08/how-to-find-creative-solutions-to-non-creative-problems/#comment-123618 Phil, Not sure whether I agree with you, although I haven't done much research. I don't think pot is nearly as bad as many hard drugs (probably comparable to smoking cigarettes or drinking), but I haven't heard many positive benefits. -Scott Phil,

Not sure whether I agree with you, although I haven’t done much research. I don’t think pot is nearly as bad as many hard drugs (probably comparable to smoking cigarettes or drinking), but I haven’t heard many positive benefits.

-Scott

]]> By: Phil E. Drifter http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2008/01/08/how-to-find-creative-solutions-to-non-creative-problems/comment-page-1/#comment-123494 Phil E. Drifter Wed, 09 Jan 2008 08:46:00 +0000 http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2008/01/08/how-to-find-creative-solutions-to-non-creative-problems/#comment-123494 Smoke pot. For the same reason it causes people to sometimes forget what they were just talking about, it has been observed that while under the influence of cannabis, the brain, instead of taking the direct route between two pieces of information, takes a more roundabout way of connecting the two pieces of information, which is why people sometimes forget what they were just talking about. Also, it was made illegal not because it was dangerous, but because of the many industries that commercial hemp would have leveled, had it been allowed to compete. And it also gave Uncle Sam an excuse to stuff his prisons with minorities. (The United States has, by far, more prisoners per capita than any other nation in the world, mostly for non-violent 'possession of narcotics' charges.) Look up and purchase the following books, all available now from half.com: The Marijuana Conviction Marijuana Myths, Marijuana Facts The Emperor Wears No Clothes (Complete Historical Reference to Cannabis and the Conspiracy Against 'Marijuana') Race to Incarcerate: The Sentencing Project Also, below you can read the research leading up to the publication of 'The Marijuana Conviction' in 1974, written by two University of Virginia law professors after researching the history behind cannabis prohibition: The History of the Non-Medical Use of Drugs in the United States: A Speech to the California Judges Association 1995 annual conference http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/History/whiteb1.htm Legal History of American Marijuana Prohibition http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/LIBRARY/studies/vlr/vlrtoc.htm Smoke pot. For the same reason it causes people to sometimes forget what they were just talking about, it has been observed that while under the influence of cannabis, the brain, instead of taking the direct route between two pieces of information, takes a more roundabout way of connecting the two pieces of information, which is why people sometimes forget what they were just talking about.

Also, it was made illegal not because it was dangerous, but because of the many industries that commercial hemp would have leveled, had it been allowed to compete. And it also gave Uncle Sam an excuse to stuff his prisons with minorities. (The United States has, by far, more prisoners per capita than any other nation in the world, mostly for non-violent ‘possession of narcotics’ charges.)

Look up and purchase the following books, all available now from half.com:
The Marijuana Conviction
Marijuana Myths, Marijuana Facts
The Emperor Wears No Clothes (Complete Historical Reference to Cannabis and the Conspiracy Against ‘Marijuana’)
Race to Incarcerate: The Sentencing Project

Also, below you can read the research leading up to the publication of ‘The Marijuana Conviction’ in 1974, written by two University of Virginia law professors after researching the history behind cannabis prohibition:

The History of the Non-Medical Use of Drugs in the United States: A Speech to the California Judges Association 1995 annual conference
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/History/whiteb1.htm

Legal History of American Marijuana Prohibition
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/LIBRARY/studies/vlr/vlrtoc.htm

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