Thinking Tools/Example applications

Apply your skills in creating possibilities to these examples. Use divergent thinking skills, tools, and techniques to generate as many possibilities as you can for the chosen example.

Feel free to choose your own example if that is more useful.

  1. Automobile names (existing, or new, or fanciful)
  2. Baby names
  3. Becoming fair
  4. Being happy
  5. Book titles
  6. Choosing a career
  7. Creating a joke
  8. Desserts
  9. Doing good
  10. Earning trust
  11. Enjoying life
  12. Eulogies in six words
  13. Feeling good
  14. Finding a job
  15. Gaining weight
  16. Getting fit
  17. Gifts to give
  18. Halloween costumes
  19. Hats
  20. Having fun
  21. Healing
  22. Healthy snacks
  23. How to help
  24. How to spend a weekend
  25. Ice cream flavors (existing, or new, or fanciful)
  26. Improving relationships
  27. Increasing creativity
  28. Inventions we need
  29. Living wisely
  30. Logos
  31. Losing weight
  32. Meeting people
  33. Mottos for yourself, groups, teams, organizations, movements, …
  34. Names for colors
  35. Names for perfumes
  36. Names for pets
  37. New holidays
  38. New Podcasts
  39. New TV shows
  40. Places to visit (near here, far from here, quirky)
  41. Problems we face
  42. Random acts of kindness
  43. Recycling
  44. Reducing clutter
  45. Reducing waste
  46. Seeking real good
  47. Seeking true beliefs
  48. Selling me this pen
  49. Showing generosity
  50. Solutions to a specific problem
  51. Song titles
  52. Stories in six words
  53. Tattoos
  54. The phrase on my gravestone
  55. Things to do on a rainy day
  56. Uses for a paperclip
  57. What to do on vacation
  58. What to do tonight
  59. What to draw
  60. What to eat for breakfast, or lunch, or dinner.
  61. What to explore
  62. What to learn
  63. What to paint
  64. What to photograph
  65. What to study
  66. What to wear
  67. Who to visit
  68. Why are manhole covers round?
  69. World peace