Ideas just seem to spring into your head out of your subconscious but rather like last night's dream they can disappear and be forgotten just as easily. It is therefore vital to immediately jot them down on paper or in your cell phone notes.

Ideas are connections that you make spontaneously or otherwise as you review in your mind events or problems. Many of your best ideas happen when you are in idle mode. You have to train yourself to recognise an idea and then evaluate whether it is worth pursuing in any case you should write it down.

Everyone has ideas but many people have no confidence that they can make use of of their ideas, thus they never train or discipline themselves to boost there idea generating abilities.

Decide today to focus on how you think, what you think about for the next few days.

Serendipity is the effect by which one accidentally discovers something fortunate, especially while looking for something else entirely.

So the more you do and learn the more knowledge you have, the more you experience the more you promote the possibility of discovering something.

This is an exercise often used by corporates to come up with original ideas for products or services. Participents are invited to turn ideas and current practice upside down until something useful comes up; this is done without fear of ridicule.

What you must try to do is eliminate Blocking Parameters or Limiting Parameters these are unconscious assumptions/prejudices you have when approaching a problem. See the Placing a Dot Exercise where most people will docilely place the dot in the centre.

Casually hand out a Piece of Paper containing a square or circle. Casually ask people to place a dot on the paper. Get them all to stand and then ask those (80%) who put the dot in the very centre to sit down. Then find out where the rest put their dot, praise those with the most ingenuity, eg someone who put his dot on the other side!!

Use this as a warm up exercise to show your participients how docile they are and how much they are going to have to stretch themselves

Divide people up into four groups or so. Allow 5 minutes for each group to list down as many uses of a paperclip as possible.

Ask how many uses were found from each group leader, them write each idea down on a white board ignoring duplicates. Your audience will be surprised how many things were possible with such a common place item. It will also open their eyes to the power of the collective intelligence.

In fact if you repeated the exercise you would come up with even more ideas, showing there is practically no limit to our powers of imagination

Divergent thinking is a thought process or method, which is usually applied with the goal of generating ideas. It is often used for creative and problem solving purposes in conjunction with Convergent thinking.

Convergent Thinking, in which the person is good at bringing material from a variety of sources to bear on a problem, in such a way as to produce the "correct" answer. This kind of thinking is particularly appropriate in science, maths and technology.

Divergent Thinking is inspired by creative elaboration of ideas prompted by a stimulus, and is more suited to artistic pursuits and study in the humanities. Eg the Paperclip Exercise described elsewhere.

A very creative person might combine both convergent and divergent thinking to generate a completely original idea.

• S - Substitute - components, materials, people
  
• C - Combine - mix, combine with other assemblies or services, integrate
  
• A - Adapt - alter, change function, use part of another element
  
• M - Modify - increase or reduce in scale, change shape, modify attributes (e.g. colour)
  
• P - Put to another use
  
• E - Eliminate - remove elements, simplify, reduce to core functionality
  
• R - Reverse - turn inside out or upside down
  

Edward de Bono is popularly known for his lateral thinking puzzles, the solution of these problems require you to avoid making normal assumptions and to think out of the box. (Simple one A boy is rushed into A&E. The surgeon takes one look at the boy, and exclaims, "I can't operate on him; he's my son!" The surgeon is not the boy's father. How can this be?)

De Bono has detailed a range of 'deliberate thinking methods' - applications emphasizing thinking as a deliberate act rather than a reactive one. His writing style has been lauded for being simple and practical. Avoiding academic terminology, he has advanced applied psychology by making theories about creativity and perception into usable tools.

De Bono's work has become particularly popular in the sphere of business - perhaps because of the perceived need to restructure corporations, to allow more flexible working practices and to innovate in products and services. The methods have migrated into corporate training courses designed to help employees and executives think outside the box. (quote Wikipedia)

Ideas often appear to arrive fully formed in your consciousness. It can be useful to spend some time tracking down where the seed of the idea came from. Often they originate in some banal event, a meeting, an overheard remark, a newspaper article.

It is said that your weaker links are more important in this case than your stronger links. Stronger links are say colleagues you see frequently who can become a shield protecting you from the world. Weaker links are people who you see rarely but when you do see them are thus more likely to reveal unexpected information.

Exposure to unexpected or challenging situations is thus important for idea creation, you should seek out situations which challenge you or are outside your comfort zone, or out of character , do anything and everything to add to the cocktail of experiences that contribute to your life.

Example:- You go on vacation on your own in a foreign country although this will be uncomfortable you will likely be forced to meet new people make new connections go off on unexpected tangents.

The idea here is to look at things philosophically. Try to notice the unseen, get thru the obvious shell and look into the REAL thing.

The trick is to spot something is so obvious that no one has ever noticed it before

Seeing the ellusive obvious is like getting a new pair of glasses. Because every new idea that becomes a part of you, every new reality you discover makes you see the world in a new way.

Don't be scared to share your ideas with other people that way you can get useful feedback. While you have to avoid being discouraged by the inevitable negativity that you will get even from friends you should be discerning enough to take on criticism which points out valid problems with your idea. If you feel reluctant to share an idea it may be a sign that you inner doubts yourself

People often think that to have useful ideas they must think of something extraordinary or revolutionary but in fact ideas can be small and simple, a quicker way to work, a way to organise your paperwork, a way to get your work done more efficiently, an attention grabbing title for your new essay or blog posting, a simple gift that would provide pleasure for a friend or relation, a surprise for a colleague, an exciting vacation, a new recipe, a way of using some ingredients that might go stale soon.

All of these can make life a little easier or more pleasant or earn you more money

Also called the KJ method, after its developer Kawakita Jiro (a Japanese anthropologist) an affinity diagram helps to synthesize large amounts of data by finding relationships between ideas. The information is then gradually structured from the bottom up into meaningful groups. From there you can clearly "see" what you have, and then begin your analysis or come to a decision.

Affinity diagrams can be used to:

* Draw out common themes from a large amount of information.
* Discover previously unseen connections between various ideas or information.
* Brainstorm root causes and solutions to a problem.

Because many decision-making exercises begin with brainstorming, this is one of the most common applications of affinity diagrams. After a brainstorming session there are usually pages of ideas. These won't have been censored or edited in any way, many of them will be very similar, and many will also be closely related to others in a variety of ways. What an affinity diagram does is start to group the ideas into themes.

From the chaos of the randomly generated ideas comes an insight into the common threads that link groups of them together. From there the solution or best idea often emerges quite naturally. This is why affinity diagrams are so powerful and why the Japanese Union of Scientists and Engineers consider them one of the "seven management tools."

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Your social circle, family, work colleagues are your strong links these are people you see frequently, the danger is however that can become a barrier between you and new experiences. Weak links are say an old school friend you happen to bump into at a conference or on a flight.

Weak ties can provide you with information that you might otherwise not have come in contact with, something our closest associates, who share very similar experiences, cannot do. Why does this happen? well the Weak Link can help you see perspective, offer unexpected advice, criticism, or suggest people you might contact. They might have succeeded, failed, dropped out, changed religion in some they might surprise challenge you, things your strong links rarely do. They might embarrass you by asking if you've achieved your dreams.

So why not phone or email an old colleague now?