By Friday night, we'll know the Elite Eight in NCAA college basketball. These eight teams that will vie Saturday and Sunday to play in the national championship basketball game the following week.
Keeping with the eight theme, here are eight new questions from the Brainzooming R&D Lab to boost your creative thinking skills.
There are two extreme creativity questions to stimulate breakthrough ideas from four perspectives: Aspiration, Authority, Disruption, and doing More.
To develop these questions, we revisited our original source for Brainzooming extreme creativity questions: Peter's Laws. I saw these principles, subtitled the Creed of the Sociopathic Obsessive Compulsive, in a New Orleans poster shop.
I bought the poster because the rules closely match how the creative geniuses I’ve experienced approach business. For people struggling with working around these individuals, I thought the list would help them better understand their strategies.
After launching The Brainzooming Group, I revisited Peter's Laws, turning them into questions to inspire extreme creativity. This exercise produced my biggest personal insight about creative thinking skills: When you need huge thinking, don't ask for big ideas; instead, use big questions to cultivate extreme creativity and breakthrough ideas.
The strategy works tremendously well. That is why I share our original list of extreme creativity questions in nearly every Brainzooming strategic and creative thinking workshop. In a recent workshop, one attendee stated he didn't have the creative thinking skills to produce wild ideas. He wondered how he could get them. I smiled and said, "Man, do I have a technique and the questions for you!" - Mike Brown
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