Card #47 – ”Time For A Whack”

Card #47 – ”Time For A Whack” from the Creative Whack Pack

Available on the iOS App Store and as a physical deck of cards

A creativity teacher and a student were discussing a problem.

Despite a lengthy conversation, the student wasn’t able to get the point the teacher was making.

Finally, the teacher picked up a stick and gave him a whack on the side of the head with it.

Suddenly, the student began to grasp the situation and “think something different.”

Moral: Sometimes, nothing short of a figurative “a whack on the the side of the head” can dislodge the assumptions that keep us thinking the same old stuff.

“Whacks” come in all shapes and sizes: problems, humor, failure, incongruities, paradoxes, and surprises all can jolt us — even temporarily — into “thinking something different.”

— What would whack your thinking?

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