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“That’s Not Logical”

“That’s Not Logical”. Mrs. Harrell’s Eighth Grade Project . 0.1 -- Soft And Hard Thinking. Can You Sort These Items Into Two Categories ?. Logic Metaphor Dream Reason Precision Humor Consistency Ambiguity Play Work Exact Approximate Direct Focused Fantasy Reality Paradox Diffuse Analysis Hunch.

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“That’s Not Logical”

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  1. “That’s Not Logical” Mrs. Harrell’s Eighth Grade Project

  2. 0.1 -- Soft And Hard Thinking

  3. Can You Sort These Items Into Two Categories ? LogicMetaphorDreamReasonPrecisionHumorConsistencyAmbiguityPlayWorkExactApproximateDirectFocusedFantasyRealityParadoxDiffuseAnalysisHunch

  4. Metaphor Dream Humor Ambiguity Play Approximate Fantasy Paradox Diffuse Hunch Logic Reason Precision Consistency Work Exact Reality Direct Focused Analysis Now Can You Determine The Two Categories?

  5. ? ? ? ? Metaphor Dream Humor Ambiguity Play Approximate Fantasy Paradox Diffuse Hunch Logic Reason Precision Consistency Work Exact Reality Direct Focused Analysis

  6. Soft Thinking ? Hard Thinking ? Metaphor Dream Humor Ambiguity Play Approximate Fantasy Paradox Diffuse Hunch Logic Reason Precision Consistency Work Exact Reality Direct Focused Analysis

  7. Soft Thinking Soft thinking is like a Floodlight, more diffuse, and covering a wider area. It is metamorphic, Approximate, Humorous, and playful.

  8. Hard Thinking • Hard thinking is like a spot light. Bright, clear, and intense. But the focus is narrow. • It is logical, precise, exact, specific

  9. 0.2 -- The Creative Process

  10. CREATIVE PROCESS Hard thinking is not necessarily bad. It takes both soft, and hard thinking together to form the

  11. Imagination Phase • Quality Work • The Creative Process • Practical Phase

  12. Imaginative Phase You ask questions such as… What If ? Why Not? What Assumptions Can We Break? How About We Looked At This Backwards?

  13. The Motto Is… Thinking Something Different

  14. Practical Phase You ask questions such as… Is This Idea Any Good? Do We Have The Resources To Implement This? What's The Deadline?

  15. The Motto Is… Getting Something Done

  16. 0.3 -- That’s Not Logical

  17. Some people have little use for soft thinking. When faced with a problem. They say “Let’s get down to brass tacks” What about Steel tacks? Plastic Tacks? Income Tax? Syntax? Contacts?

  18. Our educational system does a fairly good job to develop our thinking skills Or at best, teaching us to regard it as a inferior tool But, much of our education is geared towards eliminating soft thinking

  19. TheThat’s Not Logical K This lock may make you discard the mind’s softest, and most valuable creation. The intuitive hunch. Your mind is constantly recording, connecting, and storing information Later it combines this disparate information into answers. Or “Hunches”

  20. Have You Had Any Hunches Recently?

  21. Summary Soft thinking is metamorphic, Approximate, Humorous, and playful. Hard thinking is logical, precise, exact, specific Hard thinking + Soft thinking = the creative process Quality Work = Imaginative phase + Practical phase

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