Jumpstart Your Creativity Quotes

“What if it was a war? • What if it was a movement? • What if there was an exclusive club? • What if it was a rare collectible? • What if it was a party? • What if it was a dance rave? • What if it was a celebration? • What if there was a charitable cause? • What if it was a patriotic event? • What if it was an unveiling? • What if there was a space rocket launch? • What if it was a visit by state dignitaries? • What if it was a pep rally? • What if it was a car show? • What if it was a football game? • What if it was a chess match?”
― Steven Rowell, Jumpstart Your Creativity: 10 Jolts To Get Creative And Stay Creative

“Once the list is developed, pick a dozen names from the list, which are a mix of both current and past celebrities. Then pose the problem and ask, “How would this situation be handled by…” • Donald Trump • Lady Gaga • Muhammad Ali • Bette Midler • Napoleon • Louis Armstrong • Gustave Eiffel • Renoir • Thomas Edison • Madam Curie • Hillary Clinton • Ronald Reagan • Big Bird • Donald Duck • Plato”
― Steven Rowell, Jumpstart Your Creativity: 10 Jolts To Get Creative And Stay Creative

“Simply go to Google and click on the Google image tab. Once there, choose various words at random. We might put in “squid” and then look at all the pictures the word squid generates. Print out one or two images generated by the word squid. Then pick another word at random such as “architect.” Pick two images under the architect category and print them out as well. After you go through a series of ten random words and have printed pictures, these are used as a Random Stimulation exercise. Here’s how it would work in a group setting. We would say to the group, “We are currently trying to figure out a way of increasing sales and revenue” (from the bowling ball company example). Now we ask the group to set that problem aside and look at a stack of random images. When looking at the images the group members are only to say what those images remind them of, as a facilitator writes down the phrases and words they mention.”
― Steven Rowell, Jumpstart Your Creativity: 10 Jolts To Get Creative And Stay Creative

“It was that spider web/fish net of a brain of yours firing off connections and ideas. Unconsciously you saw, touched, heard, or felt something that stimulated that idea. This is the phenomenon known as Random Stimulation. Some outside external stimulus or stimuli randomly triggered your brain to generate an idea.”
― Steven Rowell, Jumpstart Your Creativity: 10 Jolts To Get Creative And Stay Creative

“Instead of brainstorming the old way, we’re going to use Reverse Brainstorming; instead of talking about how to increase sales and revenue, we will brainstorm a list of the opposite or the reverse, which is “how not to increase sales and revenue.” This focus frees up everyone to be highly creative to figure out how not to meet the objective.”
― Steven Rowell, Jumpstart Your Creativity: 10 Jolts To Get Creative And Stay Creative

“Smaller groups working together is better than trying to ideate with a large group of participants—6 to 8 is ideal, 9 to 12 is tough, 13 and more a hot mess.”
― Steven Rowell, Jumpstart Your Creativity: 10 Jolts To Get Creative And Stay Creative

“We believe that the era of effective brainstorming is over because we say so (just kidding); in all seriousness, we think that brainstorming has lost its effectiveness because it has been overdone and poorly done. Most people, when invited to a brainstorming session, are not exactly thrilled.”
― Steven Rowell, Jumpstart Your Creativity: 10 Jolts To Get Creative And Stay Creative

“So what the heck is a morgue? Back in the old days, professional cartoonists used to keep what they called a “morgue.” What is a morgue for a cartoonist? It was simply pictures that they had cut out of magazines and newspapers and filed them for future reference. So if a cartoonist was drawing a frog for example, he or she would simply look in their F files for pictures of frogs.”
― Steven Rowell, Jumpstart Your Creativity: 10 Jolts To Get Creative And Stay Creative

“Think about popular acts that are currently playing across the country at the writing of this book. The Blue Man group has many shows in several cities that are all highly successful. Cirque du Soleil has dozens of shows playing around the world, almost all of them highly successful.”
― Steven Rowell, Jumpstart Your Creativity: 10 Jolts To Get Creative And Stay Creative

“absolutely amazing. I reached into the stack”
― Steven Rowell, Jumpstart Your Creativity: 10 Jolts To Get Creative And Stay Creative