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o Preface:  Einstein and Socrates
Two historically powerful systems of thought combined.

o Additional Techniques
A growing reference list with links to other techniques worth using, posted elsewhere on this site.

o Solving Problems — A Directory of Methods
More than a dozen methods for ingeniously solving problems, questions, challenges likewise of many kinds. Free, self-taught step by specific step. With the right tools you are more than a match for almost any difficulty or challenge! Come help yourself! ... Free yourself.

o Windtunnel
has become a favorite creative problem-solving method.

o Solving Problems Now
In these difficult times, you already have the techniques to solve many of the daunting problems facing society...

o Special Letter to Creativity Leaders
Our response to several congratulatory letters recently received regarding our breakthrough success at St. Andrews Country Day School in Buffalo, NY.

o Image-Streaming
Calling online the deeper, subconscious powers of your mind through visual imagery and verbal focussing. Includes group instructions.

  Welcome to Image-Streaming 
A practical "Talking Paper" on Image-Streaming training.

o Key Follow-Ups on Image-Streaming
Checklists to ensure you get to do the real thing—and get to experience the real benefits.

  Opportunity for CPS in Schools and Education 
There are now hundreds of different methods for creatively and ingeniously solving problems which are successfully in professional use around the planet.

A Huge Untapped Resource
Turn Creative Problem-Solving (CPS) Methods into Learning Methods.

o Win-Win Finder
Incentive Equilibrium analysis finds solutions so both sides win.

o High Thinktank
Application of post-Einsteinian discovery technique, including a 30-day challenge for you.

o Toolbuilder
Using your best problem-solving methods to find even better methods.

o Simply Waking Up With the Answer
Some easy methods to let you find answers overnight, or sooner.

o Double-Entry A-Ha! Method (DEAM)
A really simple, easy, idea-generating and problem-solving device.

o Evoked Sidebands
An adventure in building understanding, extending even DEAM into further reaches of discovery.

o Gravel Gulch
An easy 4-step procedure of stretching to see further possibilities.

o Beachhead
Visualizing the future to bring back innovations as yet not dreamed of today. Great also for analyzing trends, predicting futures, mapping the unforeseen  consequences of choices and decisions.

o Over the Wall
A guided imagery technique that leads you to discover answers waiting for you on the other side of a wall.

o The Melville Pattern
Describing anything in excruciating detail unlocks an endless stream of fractal imagination and creativity. Guest article by Silvia Hartmann.

o Beyond Methods
A 20-point checklist for success in problem-solving.

o Dynamic Format
Simple procedures for running better, more productive meetings, groups, clubs and classes.

o Taxonomy of Methods
An organized guide to these and all other such creative problem-solving (CPS) techniques.

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Additional Techniques Worth Using

  • Borrowed Genius
    Ask yourself, "What would a genius do?"

  • Idea Generator
    for breakthroughs in science research.

  • Mutual Listening
    for miracles in the classroom.

  • Effective Problem-Solving: Using What We Know
    Includes updates to the Windtunnel method.

  • Windtunnel!!!
    Insights from torrential outpourings.

  • Freenoting
    The original torrential-outpour technique which pulls your best answers into focus of conscious awareness. Same dynamics as with "Windtunnel," only in a version which you can work when alone without a partner.

  • Build Ability to Understand
    A great way to build your full understanding until your a-ha! comes. Just run this procedure in the context of your problem or issue situation, without trying to force it to yield a specific answer, and see what emerges for you.

  • Crabapple
    Use metaphor to find answers.

  • Walk in the Woods
    Attention-catchers give clues.

  • Two Experiments
    Quick ways to get great answers — Basic Associative Process and Three Doors, exploring and using the instant problem-solving associative reflexes of your mind.

  • AAA — Ask, Aware, Answer
    Christopher Gooch offers good tools to heighten awareness and let your subconscious find the answers for you.

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