“That’s Not Logical”Mrs. Harrell’s Eighth

Grade Project

0.1 -- Soft And Hard Thinking

LogicMetaphor

DreamReason

PrecisionHumor

ConsistencyAmbiguity

PlayWorkExact

ApproximateDirect

FocusedFantasyRealityParadoxDiffuse

AnalysisHunch

Can You Sort These Items Into Two

Categories ?

MetaphorDreamHumor

AmbiguityPlay

ApproximateFantasyParadoxDiffuseHunch

LogicReason

PrecisionConsistency

WorkExact

RealityDirect

Focused Analysis

Now Can You Determine The Two

Categories?

?Metaphor

DreamHumor

AmbiguityPlay

ApproximateFantasyParadoxDiffuseHunch

LogicReason

PrecisionConsistency

WorkExact

RealityDirect

Focused Analysis

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?Metaphor

DreamHumor

AmbiguityPlay

ApproximateFantasyParadoxDiffuseHunch

LogicReason

PrecisionConsistency

WorkExact

RealityDirect

Focused Analysis

Hard Thinking

Soft Thinking ?

Soft Thinking

Soft thinking is like a Floodlight, more diffuse, and covering a wider area.

It is metamorphic, Approximate, Humorous, and playful.

Hard Thinking

• Hard thinking is like a spot light. Bright, clear, and intense. But the focus is narrow.

• It is logical, precise, exact, specific

0.2 -- The Creative Process

Hard thinking is not necessarily bad.

It takes both soft, and hard thinking together to form the

CREATIVE PROCESS

Soft Thinking

Hard Thinking

The Creative Process

Soft Thinking

Hard Thinking

The Creative Process

The Creative Process

Imagination Phase

Quality Work

Practical Phase

Imaginative Phase

What Assumptions Can We Break?What If ? Why Not?

You ask questions such as…

How About We Looked At This Backwards?

The Motto Is…

Thinking Something Different

Practical Phase

Do We Have The Resources To Implement This?

Is This Idea Any Good?

You ask questions such as…

What's The Deadline?

The Motto Is…

Getting Something Done

0.3 -- That’s Not Logical

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?

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

The

That’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 informationLater it combines this disparate information into answers.

Or “Hunches”

Have You Had Any Hunches Recently?

SummarySoft 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