Creative Questions

04/02/2015

This New Year needs us all, all our hopes all our good wishes, all our smiles and all our gestures of forgiveness.
Maya Angelou

When I was getting my Masters Degree from Lesley College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, under the tutelage of Gwen Morgan, she shared this list of questions to ask when stuck solving a problem. The list was created by Michael LeBoeuf in Imagineering (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1980) and I first presented it in the ExchangeEveryDay on May 2, 2011...

What can be added?
What if this were exaggerated?
What else can this be used for?
What is being wasted that can be put to use?
What else is like this?
What else can be adapted?
Is there something I can duplicate?
How can this be done better and more cheaply?
How can this be made more appealing?
What can be substituted?
What should be subtracted?
Can it be done faster?
What ideas can be combined?
How can this be condensed?
How else can this be arranged?
What is the opposite of this?
What if nothing is done?

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