Pay your assumptions on the opposite
Difficulty: 5 out of 10

Time: 30 minutes

The terms of the game are simple:

Break the template: reverse your assumptions.
Establishing a connection: apply new knowledge.
This exercise is especially useful for those who are somehow connected (or want to be connected) with business. For example:

In restaurants there is a menu - in restaurants there is no menu.
The site should be intuitive - the site should confuse the visitor.
The product should be attractive - the product should be as repulsive as possible.
This approach will allow us to look at the situation from a completely different standpoint. This does not mean that the product must necessarily be ugly, but this assumption itself is capable of nudging interesting and useful thoughts.

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If you do not want to start your own business, then let's have full imagination:

Parents older than children are children older than their parents.
Vegetables are good for health - vegetables lead to a heart attack.
Books develop a person - books make a person think too narrowly.
Exercise develops creative, associative, critical and logical thinking, planning, healthy doubt.

2
The Medici effect
Difficulty: 10 out of 10

Time: 90 minutes

In 2008, a book by François Johansson entitled "The Medici Effect" was published, which allowed to see the creative people on the other side. In it, in particular, it was pointed out that when a creative person (for example, a designer) communicates only in a professional circle, he becomes unable to go beyond his own thinking. Johansson talks about the phenomenon of the Renaissance and insists that the reason for this is the family of the Florentine bankers of the Medici. They loved art and invited various people to Florence: poets, sculptors, scientists, artists, architects, financiers and philosophers. All of them communicated with each other, exchanging experience, as a result of which many of them made an incredible breakthrough in their activities.

The essence of the exercise is to find common ground in various disciplines and cultures. For example:

Genetics
Computer science
Indian food
Latin American Music
Browsing
Medicine
Oil industry
Creativity Dali
It is difficult for a person to create something radically new on an equal place. All great people invented revolutionary theories or products, relying on the connection between unconnected spheres. One da Vinci is worth it: he watched the animal world and invented his inventions.

Take two any spheres, say, medicine and sweets and try to come up with a new area or at least to improve the two old ones. This is difficult (and therefore 10 out of 10), but it is this ability that will allow you to rise above the crowd and leave a significant mark on the development of mankind.

Exercise develops the inventor's skills, writing skills, associative thinking, memory, logic and the ability to see the essence of things.

3
Reading news and finding solutions to problems
Difficulty: 7 out of 10

Time: 60 minutes

Since it can significantly spoil your mood, find such sites where there is no room for politics. What problems exist in the world? And on a certain continent or in an exotic country for you? It is not necessary to look for real solutions, involve fantasy.

Now the topic of migration to Mars is very popular. How can this be done? How many people are there to live there? What will people eat? By what criteria will participants choose for the colony?

Exercise develops the ability to solve problems, see the future prospects, think outside the box and get involved in the problems of civilization.