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Fast Brainstorming Ideas
Quick Brainstorming TechniquesTake a legal pad of paper, a pen and, as fast as you can, write down any ideas, which come into your head on the problem under attack. Surprisingly enough most of us have negative thinking so well built into our system that it is easy to think killer phrases. To effectivley brainstorm, we have to ring a bell mentally on ourselves. We do seem just as anxious to hide silly ideas, even if no one is ever going to see our list. Solo brainstorming takes some discipline, just as group brainstorming. We have to learn to free-wheel, but if we do, it is amazing what the subconscious can produce.
Brainstorm for the Ideas You Already Have about a problemMany times you will find that you have been carrying in your head solutions to problems that logic wouldn't let you express, even to yourself. While you were looking at the problem in the proper, professional way, your subconscious was having its own offbeat and often brilliant ideas. Once you have them down on paper your professional background can make the difference by turning them into profits.
Solo brainstorming techniques can be used anywhere.Many commuters find that they can brainstorm a problem they will face during the day on their way to work. Some men who travel a great deal brainstorm in the air—or in the club car. Some brainstorm how best to use the time they'll "waste" traveling and come up with some problem; you guessed it, to brainstorm.
Many executives brainstorm a problem before getting out of bed in the morningespecially if they've thought about the problem before going to sleep and let their subconscious puzzle over it while they snored. Others like to brainstorm just before they turn off the light at night when their subconscious is crowded with the impressions from a busy day.
A solo brainstorm lacks the stimulation of many mindsThere are ways to beat this, however, which can easily be applied to any job. If the problem to be solved involves something small and tangible—a package for frozen fish sticks, a new casting for an engine, the sole of a shoe—it's helpful to handle the object, looking at it from every different angle, holding it upside down, sideways, turning it around in your hands. You might take different materials and apply your other senses to them. Depending on the goods, you might cut it, tear it, and try to bend it, run your hand over it, even bite or smell it. The thing to do is to look at an old problem in a new way. Then as you get a new idea, no matter how screwy, write it down.
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