🧐 What is it

By exposing our minds to random words that are unconnected to our problem or challenge, they provoke new associations, much like the ripple that spreads outward in all directions after you drop a pebble into a pond.

✏️ How to use

1. Select a random word. This word must be completely random and unrelated to your problem or challenge.
2. Think of as many things as you can that are associated with the random word you have selected and write them down. Write down as many associated ideas and concepts as possible.
3. Force connections between your random word and your problem or challenge, using the characteristics you identified in the previous step.
4. Write your ideas down.

🌟 Benefit

The ultimate benefit of word lists is that they help you to appreciate your brain’s awesome powers of association. As you cultivate this skill, you’ll come to realize that it can serve you any time, anywhere. Literally anything in your environment can become stimuli that you can use to make connections with your current problems and challenges. And that can open up a world of possibilities and new ideas that can help you to transform your world.

🧐 What is it

Forced Relationship(Connections) is the essence of creativity; the practice of combining new ideas that don’t appear to be related in any way. This idea helps you get ideas flowing when you are stuck. The concept of 'iPhone', which combines 'telephone', 'music', and 'internet' was a strong combination that broke the framework of the time(2007).

✏️ How to use

1. Prepare 300 to 1,000 small notes.
2. Write down words randomly on the memo, one per one memo.
3. Put them in the box and shake to mix.
4. Draw 2~3 memo papers like a lottery.
5. Create ideas by forcing these words together.

🌟 Benefit

This method works for both groups and individuals. Combining distinct things opens up new possibilities, and you can try novel combinations every day, even shortly. It is also easy for beginners who are having trouble thinking about ideas, and they can get into the habit of thinking openly. You can use not only words, but also questions, sentences, and pictures, and can be widely used not only in practice, but also in education and games.

🧐 What is it

Lateral Thinking is a deliberate, systematic creative-thinking process that deliberately looks at challenges from completely different angles. By introducing specific, unconventional thinking techniques, lateral thinking enables thinkers to find novel solutions that would otherwise remain uncovered.

🔑 4 Points

- Recognize the dominant ideas that polarize the perception of a problem.
- Search for different ways of looking at things.
- Relax rigid control of thinking.
- Use chance to encourage other ideas

✏️ 7 Techniques

- Alternatives: Use concepts to breed new ideas.
- Focus: Sharpen or change your focus to improve your creative efforts.
- Challenge: Break free from the limits of accepted ways of operating.
- Random Entry: Use unconnected input to open new lines of thinking.
- Provocation: Move from a provocative statement to useful ideas.
- Harvesting: Select the best of early ideas and shape them into useable approaches.
- Treatment of Ideas: Develop ideas and shape them to fit an organization or situation.

🌟 Benefit

Often trying to think harder in the same direction may not be as useful as changing direction. Effort in the same direction will not necessarily help you achieve your goal. Lateral thinking deliberately distances itself from "vertical" or logical thinking (the classic method for problem solving: working out the solution step-by-step from the given data).