September 2019
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
4h 15m
English
Let’s do some warm-up exercises now shall we? If you were about to launch into some kind of physical exertion you’d do a few stretches first. Well, it’s the same with mental exercise. You’ve got yourself in the mood, now limber up a bit before you focus on your current creative exercise.
There are lots of exercises you could do, and it doesn’t really matter which you choose – except you don’t want to get stuck in a new rut, so don’t always pick the same thing. There are lots of suggestions online and in books, or you could be properly creative and invent your own. What you’re after is anything that forces you to think divergently for a couple of minutes to set your mind working in the right way.
Divergent thinking means taking ...