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e19 3 Tricks Innovators Should Steal from Magicians

Name: e19 3 Tricks Innovators Should Steal from Magicians
Uploaded: 2021-04-02T11:00:25+00:00
Duration: 59 s
Channel: Stephen Shapiro
Description: The video (by Stephen Shapiro) recommends using a provocation technique for innovation: instead of asking "what's a possible solution?" deliberately…

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The video (by Stephen Shapiro) recommends using a provocation technique for innovation: instead of asking "what's a possible solution?" deliberately imagine impossible, illegal, or outrageous solutions, then identify their attributes and adapt those attributes to create unusual but workable solutions. The clip frames this as a way to escape experience-based and reality-limited thinking.

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Most of the time, when we're looking for solutions to a pressing problem, a difficult problem, what we tend to do is base the solutions on our past experiences. And in most cases, we are limited by reality. Now, I know that sounds obvious, but when we're trying to solve a problem, we almost always ask ourselves, what would be a possible solution to this problem? But what if you ask yourself a fundamentally different question. What if, instead of saying, what's a possible solution? What is something that's impossible, illegal, immoral, something that would get us arrested, Something would have people in an uproar? Well, now we're actually taking a solution that is impossible. And then we can ask ourselves, what are the attributes of that impossible idea, that magical thinking, and how can we leverage it to find an unusual, yet workable solution? And.