Sunday, January 20, 2008

Combine Your Way to Riches!

That's right! The fourth verb to help your creativity is combine. Fortunes have been made using this simple word. The classic example of how somebody used combine effectively is the pencil with an eraser. Simple? Yes. But that is the essence of combine. Just take two things that nobody has ever put together and voila!! It sucks or it's great. Who knows. You have to experiment. Often when you have a challenge or problem that you have clearly stated and you really understand... Your brain is looking for a solution. The subconcious is putting things together in a way that your poor, weak conscious mind will never understand. So make sure you understand exactly what you're looking for and then you get to combine new and interesting things.
Today's challenge.... what two interesting (cookie dough and ice cream???) things would you combine? Let us know.

“Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable”
Kenyan Proverb

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”
Scott Adams



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Although this link doesn't have anything to do with creativity, it's a lot of fun.

2 comments:

starlagurl said...

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Louise Brown
TravelPod Community Manager

Anonymous said...

Hi Jack,

Combine is such a great concept for creativity - as in your example, some of the best ideas in history come from combinations...

Like hot fudge sauce and ice cream...

I look forward to reading more of your stuff soon,

Lee