December 2011
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ycombinator ideas →
A list which may spark a few ideas
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A little humor and relaxation for your idea...
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Why We do Dumb or Irrational Things: 10 Brilliant...
Ever wondered about this question? Hint: assumptions are a big part of the answer.
For example:
The ‘halo effect’ is a classic finding in social psychology. It is the idea that global evaluations about a person (e.g. she is likeable) bleed over into judgements about their specific traits (e.g. she is intelligent). Hollywood stars demonstrate the halo effect perfectly. Because...
October 2011
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What do you get when add Steve Jobs and Terry...
Well, a great interview that flexes the idea muscle of Steve Jobs.
http://www.npr.org/2011/10/06/141115121/steve-jobs-computer-science-is-a-liberal-art
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Supporting Divergent Thinking in The Workplace →
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How about an idea muscle game? 1
Unlike Thoughts
A sentence like “food is to the eye like perfume is to the nose” connects different thoughts. Provide a sentence fragment like “food is to eye like” and ask the player to complete it. Once the other person completes the sentence, he is required to come up with another fragment and ask someone else in the class to complete it. This game demonstrates that different...
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Lovely Effort: Divergent Thinking in School →
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September 2011
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What is your idea muscle exercise schedule?
When people train certain muscle(s), they follow a set of exercises. What are the possible exercises for your idea muscle? Divergent thinking exercises are an example? how would you structure your training?
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15 Unusual Uses for Your Hair Dryer
Idea Muscle Exercise of the day!
Handheld hair dryers were introduced for the domestic market in 1920, and since then countless hairdos have relied on that combination of heat and air to achieve their coiffed perfection.
But the humble blow dryer has plenty of other services to offer around the house — here are a handful of them:
1. If you need to quickly set the icing on a cake, the air...
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The Idea Muscle of Jeff Bezos
I was putting together an idea muscle exercise for creative ways to use a watch when I came across a truly unique use of a watch. Her is one way to use a watch that will stretch your idea muscle from Amazon’s Jeff Bezos.
Jeff Bezos–America’s 18th richest man, according to Forbes magazine—has just bought himself a new watch. Well, more like an expensive clock. It’s a $42...
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5 Sock Uses You Never Thought Of
This posts highlights the most random and unkown ways of how to use a sock. This is an idea muscle and divergent thinking exercise. 23 uses of socks exercise is here.
1. As tattoo sleeves
2. To Dry Lettuce
3. Use it to curl your hair.
4. Wear them. Take pictures and audition for a sock model.
5. Use them to make a sock doll.
August 2011
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20 Ways
Use your idea muscle to generate ideas and then believe in them. See how http://passivepanda.com/movement
If you want to start a movement, then getting people to believe in your ideas is a crucial step. Read this article to learn how to do just that.
14. Write a report and then send it to the right person.
This is a brilliant strategy that I got from Nick Reese. If you do it right, then this...
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“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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How to generate the most amount of money in 2...
A 6 minute video from Stanford University.
http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2268
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The 50 Things Every Creative Should Know.
The 50 Things Every Creative Should Know. http://www.the-50.org/ This requires a strong idea muscle.
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“Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four hours...”
– Abraham Lincoln
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“Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it...”
– Einstein
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“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”.”
– Thomas Edison
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The Envelope:You have $5 and 2 hours. Go.
Tine Seelig is the author of ‘What I Wish I knew When I Was 20’. A fantastic book which will give your idea muscle a good exercise. She teaches entrepreneurship at Stanford University. You can tell that she is a creative and entrepreneurial teacher. So… If you had five dollars and two hours, what would you do to make as much money as possible? In this clip, STVP Executive...
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“Fourth component of divergent thinking is elaboration (the ability to think...”
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Think Different →
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“Third component of divergent thinking is originality (the tendency to produce...”
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Idea Muscle Exercise - The Envelope
You will get an envelope with seed funding and you have 4-5 days to think about what you would do. But as soon as you open the envelope, you have 2 hours to make as much money as possible.
Take a few minutes to think about it. More details will follow.
Note: This example is taken from ‘What I Wish I Knew when I was 20’
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How can shame be your friend?
Just read an article on: “3 Reasons Why Shame is Your Friend”. As an idea exercise, let’s come up with a few more! How can shame be your friend?
To get the idea juices flowing here are a few that come to mind:
Being ashamed can be a great motivation to be better in the future and avoid being in the same shameful position.
Once ashamed, you can analyze the factors that lead to...
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The Trip from Un-Interesting to Interesting in 13...
This is a submission from the editor of IdeaMuscle to WorkAwesome. The title of this post is the original title of the post. Here is one step. Can you think of any more?
1. Look at the big picture. A famous story is narrated as follows: two construction workers were interviewed. Both were working on a huge skyscraper in New York City. The interviewer asked the first worker: What do you do all...
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Idea Athlete
Training in the gym, would lead us to become greater athletes. Likewise, training the idea muscle would take us a long way to become great idea athletes.
http://www.youngentrepreneur.com/blog/how-to-become-an-idea-machine/
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10+ Logical Alternatives to College
This is a continuation to a previous entry. The question was posted to the Facebook group and here are a few options. Can you think of any more?
Take time to find the idea with a market capacity and do a startup (we know that Groupon was really your idea!)
Teach your language in a foreign country and travel. Many people and schools in foreign lands would love to have a native English speaker...
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Training Your Family's Divergent Thinking Skills |... →
July 2011
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What things can you do instead of going to...
What things can you do instead of going to college? Here are a few ideas to warm you up. http://www.businessinsider.com/james-altucher-college-2011-2 Question will follow tonight.
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“Second component of divergent thinking is flexibility (the capacity to consider...”
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Outliers: "The Story of Success"
This is a summary of the book Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell.
Outliers as book is an outlier. The idea behind the book is not shocking to us at all. Indeed, success and path in life is all about destiny, where you are born, which parents you have, god-given ability and of-course an arbitrary factor. The summary of Outliers is summed up by Malcolm Gladwell as: Outliers is a story of how the outliers...
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23 Cool Uses for Socks
Wear them as (wait-for-it) socks
Use it as a push up bra or stuff them in your pants
As a face mask to rob a bank
Use them as hand warmers or gloves
Use it as a piggy bank, to store things, hide things in them or carry stuff in them (like sand)
Leave cookies for Santa on top of the fireplace
Use it to a stone thrower
As tattoo sleeves
To strangle someone with them
Wrap it tightly around...
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“Write down as many difference uses that you can think of the following objects:...”
– Malcolm Gladwell in Outliers (P86)