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"Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all. How do we define this lively darting about with words, of hitting them back and forth, this sort of brief smile of ideas which should be conversation?" Guy de Maupassant

Thursday, December 2, 2004

Creative Thinking Card Sets

Two creative thinking card tools came my way through my news aggregator.  Fun.  Sample cards are available for viewing in pdf format in the first, and a good set of questions to help you explore and find creative solutions in the second.

A picture named metamemes_logo.jpgMetaMemes - a new creative thinking card deck [via Innovation Weblog] :

"This card deck consists of 214 cards with Ideas (concepts and inventions), Objects (things you can pick up and juggle), and Words (words, plus things that are harder to juggle, like Diplomacy and Gardening). Players take Idea, Word, and Object cards from the deck and combine them to produce new ideas. A meme is an idea or piece of information that is compelling enough for people to share with others they know, in effect passing from mind to mind almost like a virus"

They have a blog too that focusses on "creativity, innovation, technology and games. MetaMemes is aimed at early adopters, and this blog will focus on anything deemed cool, fun or creative"

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Free the Genie Games: [via Dave Pollard via Nancy White]

"Free the Genie is a deck of 55 creative thinking cards that help aspiring innovators get unstuck, out of the box, and achieve extraordinary results. There are an infinite amount of ways to use this brainstorming tool, but since you're obviously late for something, here are four simple ways to get started."

 

 

Put on your Thinking Hats ... or just go enjoy :)

 

 



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