During my class, every of my exercise has been
tailored around a paper clip and I am so sure my students are now in touch with
the deep meaning and detailed importance of a paper clip. I love paper clip, I
love dust particles, I am into pen covers, the buckle of my sandal is so
important to me and the list continues... I mean, all these things are such
simple yet ingenious and ubiquitous artifact that can be used as a trigger for
creative thinking.
As part of their exercise, I asked them to write
40 or more uses of paper clips and I got various interesting answers. The task
is actually quite easy since really there are very few sensible uses of a
paper-clip. You can use it to clip paper together (obviously), burst balloons,
scratch recharge cards and even as a nail dirt remover (according to my
students). So almost anything else will do, except you find it, so
difficult. While I was going through
their answers, it suddenly hit me that there is another side to the question.
What are the ‘non-uses’ of paper clip? Things you cannot use a paper clip for.
Most people will find
this quite hard which shows that they are not fluid at activating the right
side of their brain. This is a lateral thinking task because you have to get
off the track of thinking of actual uses of a paper-clip. This tests how random
you can be.Here are a few examples:
You can’t fly to
the moon on a paper-clip. You can’t marry a paper-clip. You can’t use a
paper-clip to teach snail quantum physics.
One of the reasons people freeze up and can’t think of anything, especially in this kind of exercise, is that they may have subconsciously blocked their minds to normal and simple way of thinking through problems such that now they have to compete with that. This doesn’t help. When generating ideas you do not and cannot compete with yourself, it’ll modify how you think and shut down your creative process. The point is not to outdo yourself or someone else. The point is to come up with ideas. In case of a group (like my class), you need to be influenced and riff off what others come up with because ideas comes from other ideas.
So what else?
You cannot use a paper-clip to solve world poverty…. hang on, perhaps you can. If we do this…. and this… and suddenly a brave new idea is found that actually changes the world…..only because ’judgmental thinking’ such as ‘that won’t work, that’s stupid’ has been turned off. Try it yourself.
I love to hear your story!
Tomisin Ajiboye (@tomisinajiboye) is an Idea management and Problem-Solving Young Entrepreneur. He is a member of Creative Africa Network and American Creativity Association – a Creative Consultant with Solvere Word Consult. He is also the author of Crazetivity Seriex, CIDPIE Creativity Process Model and Midde1.0. Founder of Creative Entrepreneur Organization (CEO) and #InspireMonday on Twitter and www.inspiremonday.com
So much lessons to pick up here. Creative thinking is about thinking widely, no limits, dis includes thinking about those unnecessary aspect of a thing which probably will be the key to unlock the idea that will liberate us. For Example, 'you can't fly to the moon on a paper clip', 'you can't marry a paper clip' etc are True but sounds like an unnecessary point to raise, but people that raise such point engage their brain widely without limits.
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