You can come up with as many solutions as you like, but if you're trying to solve the same wrong problem, it may be like banging your head against a wall... When there's a door right nearby.  So...

Bang your head against the door!

Can you question what your problem really is?

Easy idea to grasp, or so I thought...  But I learned from talking to Thomas and again re-reading his book-  It is only not an idea, it is an infinite art form, one you can learn and practice endlessly.  

Luckily Thomas has done the real research-based work to assess the nitty gritty of how to implement the idea instead of just thinking about it.  He provides real tools, a formula and workflow, lots of insights, and at the end we apply it to a real creative problem everyone deals with....

Part 2 of the first conversation of Creative Growth-  LeeAnn and Austin continue their expansive conversation, beginning with The Microwave Story...

The first Creative Growth interview with LeeAnn Renninger, cognitive psych and leadership researcher, founder of LifeLabs Learning, as well as a kind, relentlessly curious, and eminently human friend.  

What Is Imagination?

Jung and his toy blocks ~ Doodles ~ Redefining creativity ~ What creativity is in the brain ~ Everyone has rhythm ~ Unweaving the rainbow -> Unbecoming to become...