Creative Questions

07/16/2008

I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan

In Imagineering (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1980), Michael LeBoeuf proposed asking questions to spark your imagination. He gave these examples that can spark creativity when faced with a challenge...

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 this like?
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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