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100 Online Brainstorming Tools to Help You Think Outside the Box
A lateral thinking process, brainstorming demands that people come up with ideas and thoughts that can seem shocking or crazy. By using these ideas as a starting point, you can then change and improve them into something useful and original. Below are the top 100 tools, tips, guides, and resources to help you think outside the box and maximize your ideas.
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useful principles, tools, articles and quotes about all matters around being creative and using creativity.
Connections: ideas and innovation don’t occur in isolation, and creativity is a combinatorial force.
In 1978, BBC aired a 10-part series entitled Connections, in which science historian James Burke made a compelling case for what’s essentially our founding philosophy: That ideas and innovation don’t occur in isolation, and that creativity is a combinatorial force. (Something more recently echoed by Paula Scher, Nina Paley and Steven Johnson.) True to the program’s subtitle, An Alternative View of Change, Burke debunks the myth of historical progress as a linear force and instead explores the interplay and interconnectedness of events and motives as the origin of modernity’s gestalt.
It’s about the things that surround you in the modern world and, just because they’re there, shape the way you think and behave; and why they exist in the form they do; and who — or what — was responsible for them existing at all.”
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Fun interactive toys like doodling, scribbling, etc
Collaborative fixation: Effects of others' ideas on brainstorming - Kohn - 2010 - Applied Cognitive Psychology - Wiley Online Library
Why brainstorming is not working.