Here is a pretty common creative technique called Good Bad Interesting. You can use it during your next brainstorming activity. You take one subject and you try to find something about it that is Good Bad and Interesting. Pretty simple right.
Well that is pretty easy when the subject is something new you are exploring or you are in a group with a variety of different viewpoints. This will be different.
Looking at my desk I am picking the most boring, uninteresting things I see and giving you a list of three items you have to try to write something Good Bad Interesting about. Sorry they can’t ask why these things are on my desk.
Your list:
- A Bottle Cap
- A Sharpie Marker
- An Empty CD Envelope
Have Fun!
Bonus: Add an item from your own desk and do the same.
Bottle Cap
Good — You are drinking more water!
Bad — Why is the cap off your water bottle, what if you spill it on your ipad!
Interesting — Is that cap really from an innocent bottle of water….
Sharpie Maker
Good — so permanent 🙂
Bad — so permanent 🙁
Interesting — is it capped or retractable??
Empty CD Envelope
Good — at least you have the envelope
Bad — where the heck is the CD?
Interesting — music, work … or cash value!!
Bottle Cap
Good — Anyone heard of My Coke Reward Points?
Bad — They take a long time to add up
Interesting — How many Coke products can one man have
Sharpie Marker
Good — Great for Writting on CDs
Bad — That mustache I drew on you is hard to wash off
Interesting — I’d be lost with out it
Empty CD Envelope
Good — When I need it, it is there
Bad — When I need it, I’ll actually need two
Interesting — The CD that was in it is … (make up your own adventure)