Creative Thinking

Our first module in this course was on Creative Thinking. We were asked to look into different styles of thinking, and different ways of looking into things. Not only did we look into Lateral and Critial thinking, two terms coined by Edward de Bono to describe the ways we think, but we looked into methods of making us think differently, or at least harness the thoughts we were having. We were given various exercises to help us in the future when trying to generate ideas. First of which was to find an object for a pound, and think of 50 differnt ways to use it. This exercise was interesting and forced to look at something for more than its standard use. For instance a lighter is used for lighting cigarettes mainly, however it could be used to wedge a door or fight a vampire. The second of our exerices was to write a story in for frames based off a single randomly chosen sentence. My group was given the sentence "Oh my god, I've just eaten my cat", the rules were simple with four pictures and a little text per picture, we had to create a story that included that line. We wrote a story about a loan shark who tricked a late paying loaner in to eating his own cat as a punishment. On top of those exercises we looked into; mind mapping, and a few other tricks to help us out.