The document discusses various techniques for generating new ideas, including loosening mental constraints, creating optimal environments for creativity, and exploring different types of thinking. It encourages participants to challenge assumptions, consider unrelated connections, and entertain impossible ideas. Physiology is said to affect psychology, so participants are instructed in physical exercises to boost thinking. Lateral thinking puzzles are presented to stimulate unconventional ideas.
42. Who made up a new idea so they didn’t have to share their special idea?
43. Realize that great ideas are many and often - it’s the action you take to make them happen and the timing of the opportiunity that makes the difference.
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45. All these are mutli million pound ideas. Go and do them!
79. Paradigm shifts: Jobs for life in public sector, Swiss watches and quartz, buying music and record labels, selling books and Amazon, the way we watch TV!
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81. Take 5 minutes and together B’s take the word ‘shopping’ and link it to anything i.e. What if shopping was like…. Pick one. And discuss with your partner.
82. 3 rules: The connection must be like for unlike. Be truly random. Choose tricky concepts to stretch yourselves.
128. The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get. Jim Rohn