Look at your project from many different views. That’s my point with the optical illusions. What do you see…or what do you think you see? This is very important despite how silly it might feel.
How to see your project in a new light: ask yourself how it would look if you were an astronaut, or an 8 year old, or the Pope, or had all the money in the world, or had none. How do the other people involved see it? Compare your project to something completely unrelated: what’s the same about your project and your shoe, your dog, or the idea of tomorrow. These are all exercises in contrast and juxtaposition….great for fostering creativity,
Knowing that “thinking” is visual and symbolic, draw diagrams. Get some large pieces of paper(larger than 8.5x11). Put a circle in the middle and label that as your “problem”. Now draw a few lines radiating out from that circle. These are all aspects of that problem. At the end of those lines might be the different goals of each of those aspects…what ever may be suited to your particular problem. You can even see your problem as having a color or texture, size and shape.
After engaging in this activity, you will definitely see things you did not see before. By now you should be able to clearly make a few statements defining the problem. Write those down. Perhaps you have divided your problem into sections and can address each section separately. You are now at the point of…
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