I pulled Michael Michalko's text ThinkerToys off my shelf to find some thought stimulation and came across these little ditties. Turn a capital "D" on its side, place it on top of a capital "J." What does it remind you of?
How about this... Read both across and down. What do you see?
I2
A I3 C
I4 Maybe a little silliness and maybe a way our rational minds interpret what we see. The umbrella graphic looks like a D turned on its side on top of a J. Left to right, we see A, B, C while top to bottom we easily see 12, 13, 14.
According to Michalko, our minds are performing a SCAMPER.
S - Substitute
C - Combine
A - Adapt
M - Modify or Magnify
P - Put (in order)
E - Eliminate
R - Reverse or Rearrange
Michalko challenges us to "take an existing item and manipulate it into a new idea." He reminds us that everything new is simply a modification of something that already exists. You can SCAMPER your daily routine, be creative, and make everything old new again.
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