Creative Thinking Strategy 8 - Find What You’re Not Looking For

Find What You’re Not Looking For– Making a significant change to the problem or product, as well as imagining “creatures” or new “animals” that involve parts of random items. Based on the strengths and weaknesses of the new idea that comes from the abstraction or change, one can apply that to the current problem to find a novel solution.

Crossbreeding– The user will take two unrelated items and create a new creature that will have its own life and way of living. Using that, I will take the strengths and weaknesses of that creature based on the story that I create to come up with a novel solution. This is a very creative way of taking an unrelated item and connecting that to the problem.