HERE ARE SOME FUN EXERCISES TO

GET YOUR BRAIN WORKING!

(Don’t move to the next slide until you’ve really become stumped)

Puzzle: Copy the above image to paper. Draw no more than four straight lines (without lifting the pencil) and connect all nine dots. No back-tracking either.

Here is one solution.

Here is another………(using a very fat line indeed!)

Here is another………(using scissors and tape)

What’s the point? Don’t assume constraints or limitsbased on cultural, emotional, or learned experience.

QUESTION YOUR PRESUMPTIONS !!!

Here is another exercise:

Grab a pencil and pieceof paper. Draw the object

that is being describedto you.

What’s the point?

Never assume that what you are attempting to expressis being expressed by the

appropriate mode of communication.

Exercise # 3:

B S A I N X L E A T N T E A R S

Exercise # 3:

“Cross out “six letters” so that the remainingletters without altering their sequence,

will spell a familiar word.”

B S A I N X L E A T N T E A R S =B A N A N A

Exercise # 3:

What’s the point?

Nurture the ability to see and hear ambiguity

(which will usually lead you tothe second right answer).

Exercise # 3:

“Cross out six letters so that the remainingletters without altering their sequence,

will spell a familiar word.”

B S A I N X L E A T N T E A R S =

Exercise # 3:

“Cross out six letters so that the remainingletters without altering their sequence,

will spell a familiar word.”

B S A I N X L E A T N T E A R S =L E T T E R S