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Creative Questions
April 2, 2015
This New Year needs us all, all our hopes all our good wishes, all our smiles and all our gestures of forgiveness.
-Maya Angelou

When I was getting my Masters Degree from Lesley College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, under the tutelage of Gwen Morgan, she shared this list of questions to ask when stuck solving a problem. The list was created by Michael LeBoeuf in Imagineering (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1980) and I first presented it in the ExchangeEveryDay on May 2, 2011...

  • What can be added?
  • What if this were exaggerated?
  • What else can this be used for?
  • What is being wasted that can be put to use?
  • What else is like this?
  • What else can be adapted?
  • Is there something I can duplicate?
  • How can this be done better and more cheaply?
  • How can this be made more appealing?
  • What can be substituted?
  • What should be subtracted?
  • Can it be done faster?
  • What ideas can be combined?
  • How can this be condensed?
  • How else can this be arranged?
  • What is the opposite of this?
  • What if nothing is done?




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Adrienne · April 03, 2015
United States


These are excellent questions that we should all remember. As a point of clarification it is Lesley University, formerly Lesley College that is in Cambridge MA.



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