Putting out Fires

So I’m in this Thinking and Creativity class (and by ‘in’ I mean I am currently writing this blog during lecture), and I learned the most interesting thing today.  Divergent Thinking is the ultimate creative thinking, where your mind is completely open to any interesting idea.  They’ve done studies and have found that children aged 3-5 score a whopping 98% on teh Divergent Thinking scale.  By the time you are 24 this number has dropped to 2%. 

One of our assignments in class is to do something totally new to us every day.  Isn’t that a great idea?  Today I managed to order something other than Turkey Bacon Guacamole at Quiznos.  People, this is a BIG STEP for me.  I learned that TBG is still my favorite, but at least I really know it now by comparison.  Tomorrow I might do something crazy like sleep on my husband’s side of the bed (maybe with him still on it, I do know), or I might watch the news instead of the Simpsons when I go to bed.  Who knows!  Anything can happen!  Its just crazy like that.

So I challenge each of you to try this for one week and see what happens.  Park your car backwards in the garage, listen to the Spanish station instead of Howard on the way to work, or really step outside your box and watch the history channel instead of The Amazing Race.  OK, maybe that is going too far, but you know what I mean!  Write a comment if you figure out something fun and new to do!