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- 1. The Fourth Step: PLAY How to Free Your Mind to Imagine Possible Worlds
- 2. PLAY Play is when you let your mind wander. You put aside the hard work of the first three steps, you relax, and you give your subconscious time to work its magic. Play is when you enter the province of the imagination. Instead of dealing in precut, dry, dusty old facts, you envision what’s possible. You create alternate worlds, making them more colorful and interesting, smarter and more meaningful, than the current reality.
- 3. Examples of Play Texting using SMS (Short Message Service) was first invented by the Dutch company CMG, designed only for internal maintenance purposes. Amateur hackers in Europe were playing around with their phones and stumbled on a way to send messaged to each other. The also discovered that their new pirated messaging system was free! Suddenly millions of teenagers across Europe were learning how to do this too.
- 4. Creativity in Children In the 2008 Art Center Design Conference, Tim Brown, the head of IDEO, gave the audience members 30 seconds to draw the person sitting next to them. you could hear giggles, groans, and apologies as they sketched. Children, given the same task, show no embarrassment as they happily show their masterpiece to their model. this is because they haven’t learned to fear judgment. Fear is what inhibits creativity, making us conservative in our thinking and timid in our execution.
- 5. The First Practices of Playing: Visualize Visualizing is imagining possible future. Come Up with Fantastic With this technique you’ll stretch your imagination when your relaxing outdoors. Think about natural phenomenon that are mystery's to you and come up with three wild and crazy stories to explain it. Examples What causes disease? Evil spirits enter your body. Why is the sky blue? It’s actually a big lake surrounding the earth.
- 6. The Practice of Playing: Relax The techniques in this practice help you develop enough trust and patience to let your subconscious work. Creative people work harder than most people especially when they’re in the second step, learn. Leave Something Undone Still Your Mind Listen
- 7. The Practice of Playing: Find the Right Box People assume that if you’re not creative it’s because you’re think inside the box-so all you need to do is get rid of the box Example 1 Example 2
- 8. The Practice of Playing: Find the Right Box Answer 1 Answer 2
- 9. Without lifting your pencil, draw six straight lines that connect all sixteen dots. (Hint: every line must go outside the box)
- 11. The Practice of Playing: Be a Beginner Anyone trying to be creative needs to begin all over again ever day so that ideas will be fresh. Beginning is hard, everything is new and all things are possible. Do Something for The First Time Hula-Hooping Bake Bread Start a New Hobby Wood carving Building a website Plan on Fun Go skydiving Take piano lessons When great designers think outside the box, what they’re really doing is wearing the glasses of totally different disciplines. -Tom Kelley, CEO of the design firm IDEO