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Chapter 8 • Help Yourself to More Ideas

1. When was the last time you made a written note of something you wanted to remember? What did you do with the note? What could you have done with it that would have made it more useful?

2.       Devise or plan a note-making and note-using system for your particular needs that will be efficient, convenient, and simple.

3.       Make a list of all the things you could change or eliminate in your daily schedule to "clear" at least one hour a day for uninterrupted thinking about problems and/or opportunities. Try processing this as a problem, following the five-step method suggested in Chapter 7.

4.       Use a clock or kitchen timer for this one: In ten minutes, try to meet a quota of twenty ideas on how you could raise a son so he would grow up to be a creative person.

5.       Assume you have decided to submit one new idea a day to your company's suggestion system. Devise a checklist with at least twenty points on it that you could skim through every day to stimulate your mind to produce the needed idea-a-day.

6.       Make up a list of ten questions about your company that, if you had the answers, might help you produce profitable ideas. Work out a simple plan to get the answers to those ten questions.

7.       a. List at least three basic attributes of each of the following: A lead pencil; a flashlight; the chronic tardy worker; the daily coffee break; transparent window glass.

b. For each of the attributes you have listed, suggest at least three possible changes.

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