How to Get Ideas

How To Get Ideas

Written byJack Foster

Illustrated byLarry Corby

A Book Review By Group 4

How To Get Ideas- A review by group four

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Contents Author Introduction Ideas??!! Have Fun Become Idea Prone Set Your Mind On Goals Be More Like a Child Get More Inputs Screw Up Your Courage Rethink Your Thinking Learn How To Combine Define Problem Gather The Information Search For Idea Forget About It Put Ideas Into Action


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The AuthorAn advertisement Guru.

A self taught expert in psychology.

Named “creative person of the year” by the Los Angeles Creative Club.

Taught in the university of Southern California.


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Ideas???!!!• What is an Idea?

•Something Quantitative or Qualitative?

• Let us try and define it.

• Let us describe it.

Creating something new out of old knowledge/information.


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Have Fun!!Having fun?

Does it help?

Any examples?


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Become Idea PronePeople generate Ideas

Subconsciously.Two types of people:

◦Speculator◦Rentier

Know that Idea Exist.Know that u can find them.Create a mental Image(positive).


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Set your mind on goalsVisualize your goalThink of the goal and the path

should be clear.


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Be more like a childChildren are not bound by rules.They are fond of the abstract.Creative thinking is aided by such

free and open thinking.Restrictions of the mind are

absent in children.


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Get more inputsGathering of random information

aids in putting together a picture.The more ingredients you have

the easier it is to put together a meaningful Idea or thought process.◦Get out of your rut.◦Learn how to see.


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Screw up your courageEverybody’s afraid.There are no bad ideas.You can always get another idea.No such thing as “Too many

ideas”.Think of the rewards.


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Rethink your thinkingThe concept of thinking must be

Imaginative.Think VisuallyThink LaterallyThink outside the boxThink constrained


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Learn how to combineLook for analoguesBreak the rulesPlay “what if?”Multi-streamRisk it


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Define the problemLook for the exact problem.Put the problem in writingAvoid conflicting ideas


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Gather informationAsk questionsFind answersLook in all directionsFind out every last detail and

then some


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Search for the ideaEvery problem has a solution.Every problem has many

solutions.Don’t be satisfied with just one

look for more and you will find them.


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Forget about itDon’t saturate yourself with

thoughtsLearn to relaxWhen people are relaxed ideas

tend to sprout


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Put an idea into actionStart right nowIf your going to do itSet a deadlineGet a plan of actionNo turning back- “burn your

boats” Do it yourselfBe steadfastGet a reason


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ConclusionIts not difficult to get ideasHave a different point of view to

generate ideasThink on the flyCollect reuse and put information

togetherHave fun Do it!!


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QUESTIONS??


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THANK YOU

Documents

How to Get Ideas