Creativity Brain Training Games

Wayne Gretzky once said: "A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be."  A great snooker player is always thinking several shots ahead.  Chess masters are often thinking 10 or more moves ahead.  People at the top of their game are always thinking several steps into the future but acting in the present.  Highly creative thinking falls into the same category. 

This week we're defining.

Game:  There are 4 random words below.  For each one of these random words, describe a value proposition that is not obvious.  You may not use an idea that someone else has already used.  See below for what a value proposition is.

• ambulance
• mind
• snail
• bulldozer

This week we have another hasty hieroglyph.  It's of medium difficulty.

A word hidden behind a series of images.

Each image leads to a letter of the hidden word.

You'll have to think creatively in order to decipher it.

Why not challenge your friends.

See who can figure it out first.

Have fun!

So you've come up with this awesome idea.  It's funky as anything and you're pumped.  But then it gets to starting and it all goes downhill from there.  You dive in at a hundred miles an hour but later on take a look back and realise it's not quite going how you had hoped.  That great vision you had to begin with is not what is materialising in front of you.  What you need to do is take a step back and think about how you are managing your work.  The difference between mediocrity and completely awesome is often just the way you choose to manage.

This week we are creating a bestseller. (Just in time for NaNoWriMo)

Game:  There are four words listed below.  Your aim is to use at least three of them to create the title of a book.  Try to make is sound as exciting and intriguing as possible.  Can you create a book title that makes people really want to know more?

• lentil
• tapestry
• flag
• tractor

This week we have another hasty hieroglyph. 

A word hidden behind a series of images.

Each image leads to a letter of the hidden word.

You'll have to think creatively in order to decipher it.

Why not challenge your friends.

See who can figure it out first.

Have fun!

I receive a lot of advertising literature from politicians in my area.  Especially around election times.  I wonder how much this is necessary and what impact it has on our environment.  This weeks article is not so much about creativity but a call to be creative.  I think it would be great if there was a 'Please Email Me Instead' list that you could join and any political literature would then have to be emailed to you instead of printed and mailed.  If enough people joined it, imagine how much paper we could save.

This week we're haunting.

Game:  There are 2 random words below.  Use both of them in the opening to a scary Halloween ghost story.

• kitten
• corner

This week we have another hasty hieroglyph. 

A word hidden behind a series of images.

Each image leads to a letter of the hidden word.

You'll have to think creatively in order to decipher it.

Why not challenge your friends.

See who can figure it out first.

Have fun!

Space  (not to be confused with outer space) is an amazing asset.  Space is typically the absence of stuff, and yet it is not nothing.  It exists in nearly every form.  Space is very powerful, yet only a few of us really understand and appreciate that.  Space can be very eassy to create, yet most of us fear it,  we go out of our way to fill space, with stuff.  Usually that stuff is of less value than the space that was there before it,  but we fail to realise that.  But most importantly, space is the area in which creative thinking happens.

This week we're defining.

Game:  There are 3 random words below.  Pick one of them and create a statement or sentence, containing the word, which uses alliteration. That is, each word starts with the same sound.  Try and get as many words as possible but it still needs to make sense.

• termite
• farm
• paradise