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Equipped with the right tools, YOU are more than a match for almost any problem, challenge or opportunity. Don't put up any longer with needless
difficulties. Instead of depending on others to solve your problems, take charge
yourself and move ahead starting today!
Some of the right tools are right here, free for your use. Help yourself and
move ahead in your work, your professional life, your personal life and
circumstances, or on whatever it is that you are trying to find out or to
understand better.
For an overview of some of the easiest known methods for ingenious
problem-solving: see
Simply Waking Up With the Answer and
Solving Problems Now.
One of the easiest problem-solving methods yet known: Double-Entry
A-Ha Method, or DEAM. Its extension is
Evoked Sidebands. Simply follow the specific,
step-by-step instructions, which are laid out much like a simple cookbook
recipe. Most of the problem-solving methods and innovation methods found
throughout this website are laid out in this kitchen-recipe form, for your ease
of use and heightened likelihood of success.
Here are two awesome descendants of the original "brainstorming" method for
creatively generating ideas. If you prefer talking to writing, try out the
aptly-named Windtunnel
procedure, with either live partner or an audio recorder, as set forth in
the instructions. If you prefer some quiet writing, then
Freenoting is your
cup of tea for generating brilliant new insights and ideas and answers. Find two
versions: Freenoting and
Idea Generator.
Discover inspiration from your surroundings! Here are two absolutely brilliant
techniques for using your surroundings to generate new ideas, understandings and
solutions. Both CrabApple
and the Problem-Solving
Woodswalk are set forth in the article on
Working with Metaphor (Winsights No. 56, January 2002).
How are you at visualization and visual thinking? If you have that going, here's the "experience recipe" for
Over-the-Wall, a
tremendous way to let your own vision surprise you with the answer! If you don't yet readily visualize,
having seemingly left that skill behind in your childhood, you might first want
to train yourself in basic
Image-Streaming, derived in part from
Albert Einstein's Deep Thought
Discovery Method.
Two places to start in on this most fundamental skill,
which itself is a problem-solving method whose practice makes just about
everything work better for you: see both
Welcome to Image-Streaming, and the whole cluster of articles
providing an entire curriculum, at
Image-Streaming. (The most authoritative and
comprehensive treatment of
Image-Streaming, unlike the above, is not for free; it is the CoreBook by
Charles Roman, Image-
Streaming: Reaching the Higher Powers of Your Mind, available through
Project Renaissance.
Except for the CoreBook on
Image-Streaming, these are just a few of the methods and resources now
freely yours to use, for ingeniously solving problems, discovering answers and
understandings, finding new innovations and inventions and discoveries.
Making this freely available to you is part of our solution to the problem of
what's been happening to our world. Enabling more people, in more walks of life
and circumstance, to be ingeniously creative and to solve the problems they find
themselves in, is OUR solution to improve the chances of survival and renewed
progress of our civilization and our human future.
When Alex Osborn demonstrated in the 1950s that creativity and the ability to
ingeniously solve problems was a skill that could be learned and practiced
deliberately, he touched off the worldwide creativity revolution. (Today, there
are literally hundreds of various effective methods for creative and
problem-solving practice in professional use around the world, not only the few
you find here!) Today, we find that even "intelligence" and "I.Q." are not
determined at birth but can be powerfully improved by practice of the right
techniques. Google for "brain plasticity" and get an eyeful of what we mean by
that. Examine hundreds of scientific studies of the phenomenon of the brain
changing its circuitry, its shape, its size, its very mass, to better handle the
levels and types of information it has been handling over the previous several
years. Intelligence, like creativity, can be learned and earned. YOU have no
limits!
One of the very best techniques for increasing sheer raw intelligence and IQ is
to practice noticing questions and problems worth solving, and then solving
them, preferably one or more per day. — Easy now for you to do, equipped with
these tools!
Equipped with the right techniques, you are more than a match for almost any
challenge. You don't have to settle for a life so very far below your high
potentials. Make a start now. One good starting point is that very first
reference above,
Simply Waking Up With the Answer
.
If you have questions, feel free to write. We will try to answer them or point
toward where the answers are to be found. Now let's go after the question or
problem you had in mind when you came to this page:
What was it? Can you make it more specific? Can you choose one of the tools
cited above, and start solving that issue right now?
Comments to
Win Wenger
Something even most of the problem-solving professionals don't yet know!
Every creativity-related or ingenious problem-solving method
can also be turned
into a Superlearning
method!
When you are ready to take that on, turn to
A Huge Untapped Resource.
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