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The One Thinking Exercise To Spark Innovative Ideas
Divergent and convergent think camps.
I was on a call with a team member, and I asked, so what’s a procedural update you can make today, to minimize this issue again in the future?
He was speechless. I could hear the gears turning in his head, but nothing manifested out his mouth.
He was overthinking — something we all understand.
Overthinking inhibits our ability to be creative and propose new and exciting ideas. Ideas we can’t grasp on to when we’re busy beating ourselves up about being wrong.
We must separate our thinking into two camps.
The first camp is were you ideate, and anything goes.
It’s divergent thinking, a way to generate ideas without consequence.
“We have to generate ideas first before we can begin evaluating and eliminating them,” says Ozan Varol in his book, Think Like a Rocket Scientist.
The best way to start this type of thinking is through questions prompts.
Try this.
Schedule thirty-minutes to think about an outcome your company is trying to achieve.
