The question: 1/ How might I motivate my self to use my money more effectively? 2/ list answers and name them First Third ideas3/ more 10-list answers 4/ more 5-list answers and Name the second third ideas5/ try for more 5 answers and Name them Third third ideas. 6/ create a table and put them all together Step5: 1/ See page number 181 from the book 2/ See page number 185 from the book No need for out side sources. Please see the file below
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HU 494 CREATIVE THINKING
STEP FOUR: GENERATE ANSWERS
Due Date: I will accept papers beginning Friday, May 5 through Friday, May 12 by 11:59 PM
Length: Two to three pages (the length of your lists will affect individual paper length)
Format: 11-12 point font, 1” margins, 1.5 spaced. Title your first page Step Four: Generate Answers, your name and class (HU 494)
and section below.
Most people think of this step as the part where you come up with the ideas. It is highly likely that as you have moved through the
productive thinking process, great ideas (solutions) have popped into your head. I will ask and remind you regularly to withhold
coming up with answers too early in the process. You can’t solve a problem that you don’t fully understand.
Chapter 10 in your text will “help you tap the energy you’ve stored up in the first three steps of the process…” In this assignment,
you will use divergent, creative thinking to generate many ideas and convergent, critical thinking to focus on those ideas that have
real potential. The assignment, What’s Success? will help generate criteria against which to judge and critique (critical thinking) your
ideas.
The Assignment
In this step of the Productive Thinking Model, your goal is to generate lots of practical, whacky, impossible, unaffordable, born to
fail, ignorant ideas as you can. The outcome of this step is one or more solution (or solution paths) alternatives which if developed
may lead to a sound solution. Review the divergent/creative thinking guidelines discussed in Chapter 5.
1.
Begin with the Catalytic Question(s) you developed in Step Three: What’s the Question?
I want to see that/those How Might I, or In What Ways Might I…? question/s.
2.
List possible answers for that/those question(s). List (record for me to see) whatever comes into your head. I WANT TO SEE
ALL of these initial, first third, ideas. Our text offers that it is good to clear our brain of these old, mundane, routine ideas to
make room for the more creative ideas to come. You may even want to identify the initial, first third ideas you generate.
Give these ideas a heading such as, First Third Ideas. Present the entire list of answers/ideas.
3.
Give yourself a few minutes, possible even longer, before digging for more answers to the Catalytic Question(s).
Think of (and record) push for 10 more ideas/answers you could add to your list. You could label these, 10 More First Third
Ideas. Your ideas may be getting more interesting, but they may still lie close to the surface of the issue. Keep digging.
Present this list of ten additional ideas.
4.
Use some of the provocative questions Hurson identifies at the bottom of page 165 and top of page 166 to provoke more
ideas and answers. Hurson suggests that somewhere during this provocative and “How else…” questions session, you may
move into Second Third answers.
Label this section, Second Third Ideas. Identify the provocative questions you use. Each question could be the heading for a
new paragraph or section. Try to generate five (5) more solutions.
5.
Next, push yourself to find Third Third ideas. Our text offers many divergent thinking questions or prompts on pages 166169 to help you push to this next third. The text also offers other ways to stimulate your thinking (page 168): listen to
music, take a short excursion, or take a break.
Label this section Third Third Ideas. Identify the questions or prompts or activity you use to help develop more ideas. List
these additional ideas or answers.Try to generate at least five (5) more solutions.
6.
Finally, apply the C5 tool that you used in Step Three to filter out the less interesting or promising soultions. Now, you will
use C5 to converge on the “better” answers that you wish to further pursue. Make sure that you review how Hurson uses C 5
in this step in the process. There are important differences from its use in Step Three: What’s the Question?
I want to see the results of each step (each C) in this process. You may create a table or chart or just paragraph format to
present your results. The takeaway from this step should be the idea(s) you want to explore and develop further. “You gut
is often your best guide at this stage” (Hurson, page 173).
HU 494 CREATIVE THINKING
STEP FIVE: FORGE THE SOLUTION
Due Date: I will accept papers beginning Friday, May 5 through Friday, May 12 by 11:59 PM
Length: One to two pages
Format: 11-12 point font, 1” margins, 1.5 line spacing. Title your first page, Step Five: Forge the Solution, your name and class (HU
494) and section below.
In this paper, you will take your ideas (from Step Four) with the most potential and work with them, “massage” them, address their
flaws or weaknesses to make them powerful and workable solutions. Thurson states, you will “hunt for every flaw, every
imperfection” in your ideas. You address, fix those flaws and generate a powerful solution(s). Those ideas are not solutions. Hurson
says these are the beginnings of solutions and he calls them “solution alternatives” (p. 180).
The Assignment
1.
Evaluate your now (finally! Short list of ideas using the Success Criteria generated in Step Two.
Create an Evaluation Screen, or grid, as shown on page 181. Present this grid in your paper.
2.
Use the POWER tool (page 185) to help transform initial ideas into sound solutions.
Present the results of your POWER activity. Use the model presented in our text as an example.
A Bibliography, References or Works Cited page is REQUIRED. You must also cite sources within your paper.
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