Brainstorming Tips To Plan Out Your Future

Remember when we were taught in school how to brainstorm to generate ideas and resourceful solutions to solve problems? Since then, you’ve probably relied on your brainstorming skills once or twice without even realizing it.

Yet, in order to harness the true power of brainstorming, you need to learn how to use it effectively.

In this post, we’ll look at why brainstorming is useful and how to use it to plan out your future. Let’s get started.

Why Is Brainstorming Important?

Alex Osborn is one of the first ones to develop the original approach. He then went on to publish it in his 1953 book, Applied Imagination. From that point on, researchers have added and improved on his original technique.

Nowadays, the most popular definition of brainstorming is that it follows a relaxed and informative approach to problem-solving that also combines lateral thinking.

So, why is that important?

For starters, brainstorming sessions work by getting people unstuck and jolting them out of their routine and prosaic ways of thinking.

motivates people to come up with ideas that, initially, can seem a bit outlandish and even nonsensical. Some of these ideas can spark more innovative ideas, while others can be tailored into original, inventive solutions for a specific problem.
Brainstorming Tips to Plan Out Your Future

We all have some kind of vision for what we’d like our future to look like. That’s why if you want to move forward in your personal development, you need to plan out your future.

You don’t need to draw up every small detail, only a general layout will suffice. The most effective way to do that is to brainstorm.

Brainstorming exercises can be an immensely influential way to break through barriers and uncover new, innovative ideas.

Here are some useful tips to keep in mind when brainstorming to plan out your future.

Encourage Positive Feedback

When you’re brainstorming, you’re working to break down false assumptions about the limitations of the problem you’re trying to solve.

Having an environment where you feel safe sharing your ideas and thoughts without the fear that you’ll be judged or belittled is conducive to a healthy brainstorming session.

Hence, to help you open up possibilities and come up with ingenious solutions, you should avoid passing judgment or criticizing during brainstorming sessions.

It’ll only work to limit creativity and stunt the generation of innovative ideas and thoughts.

Create as Many Ideas as You Can

Rather than trying to come up with one big solution to your problem, try to generate as many little ones as possible.

Focus on quantity instead of quality because the more ideas you come up with, the higher the chances are that you’ll eventually land on the next great one that you’ve been searching for.

Learn to Develop an Unconventional Approach

Unconventional thinking is sometimes frowned upon because they seem to be too far out there. These types of ideas don’t usually follow the usual way of doing things, which can be off-putting to some people.

However, by welcoming unconventionality into your brainstorming sessions, you open up the possibility of creativity and innovation.

This leads to an increased number of ideas being generated and boosts the level of invention and originality.

Draw Inspiration from Others

The best way to draw inspiration from others is to combine as many ideas from different people as you can. Then, follow these steps:

1. Evaluating each idea separately.
2. Next, make three imaginary piles:
• Innovative and workable
• Could possibly work
• Completely unsuitable
3. Think about where you’d like to place each concept.
4. Focus your efforts on the ones with the highest chance of finding a suitable solution to the problem or reaching a certain goal.

Try Different Brainstorming Approaches

Whether brainstorming alone or as part of a group, the process of conceptualizing ideas can reach a point where it’s no longer entertaining or even worthwhile.

This is when using a different type of brainstorming approach can be highly effective.

Or maybe you can even use a combination of approaches to help you see the problem in a different light. Thus, you’ll find it easier to generate more creative and influential ideas.

To help you bring fun back into your brainstorming sessions, try the following approaches:

• Brainwriting
• SCAMPER
• The 5 whys
• The SWOT analysis
• Mind mapping
• Drivers analysis
• Gap filling

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