Mental acrobatics

Similar to: ʘ Personal Writing Techniques

I have been thinking about what kinds of tools or sequences of thought can lead to interesting or new ideas. How can you move, rotate, and jump over obstacles of thought? This comes out of thinking about What writing can learn from game design, but I found my experiments to be useful beyond just writing.

Not sure how to structure this page, I think these techniques would be better understood through visual diagrams than through writing on the screen.

Depth

• Asking "why?" gets to the heart of any concept
• Then transform these "heart concepts" (need better term for this) to other ideas

Rotation

• Flipping a concept or sequence opens up new perspectives

Lateral

• Abstraction / brainstorming