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Given a nail, find all the hammers.
- Given a new problem, don't just use the original solution for it, but trying to find all the solutions as well.
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MORE IDEAS ON THIS
Take your original idea and add an adjective.
- Most common adjectives you would use are faster, better, cheaper…
- Some more like adaptive, distributed, efficient and newer ones like -
- Wikipedia is encyclopedia democratized.
- Pandora is radio personalized.
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Addition
- Combine idea X with something you already know like idea Y.
- More dissimilar the two ideas, the more spectacular its fusion.
- Portable CT = CT Machine + Space Telescope
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Given a hammer, find all the nails.
- Don't just solve the original problem that was solving a specific solution, but try to solve all the other solutions as well.
- If an App store improves the quality of a phone and provides new solutions, What about an App store for every electronic gadget that's out there like microwav...
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How to invent?
If I hear a great idea X, what is neXt?
Everyone is pushing the envelope in science and arts, but the process of invention can seem very confusing.
We need a mental framework. Idea Hexagon.
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Dimension
- Raise your problem to the next level.
- Generalizing an idea to the next dimension.
- flickr(images) --> youtube(video)
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Take an idea X and do exactly the opposite of what everybody else is doing.
- Straddle method in high jump sport changed to Fosbury method due to the introduction of foam robber in place of sandpit.
- An irrelevant change that transforms the whole ecosystem and allows you to do the exactly opposite of everybody else.
- High end me...
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How to vacation like Ramesh Raskar?
- This idea hexagon is not just for inventing new technology, but can also be used for various things like figuring out what to do on your next vacation?
- Maybe take it to the next dimension or combine that with some other ideas that you have, solve the earlier problems in new ways or d...
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Everybody faces problems daily and figures out ingenious solutions to it at their personal level. This is my tribute to them. Hope it helps!
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Solution? Spend less time trying to amass all the information and more time better defining the problem so you can find the right information.
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