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Thank you We sneak Nonjudgmental brainstorming a lush shelby is

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having a hard time writing her essay for history class

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primarily because she has no idea what to write about

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Magic eight balls and weegee boards won't help you here

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shelby instead it's time to check the weather report to

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see if there's a brainstorm of blowing it a brainstorm

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is kind of like a mental hurricane sweeping through our

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heads with high winds and heavy rains and string up

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ideas that can fast waken brainstorm about all kinds of

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situations like shelby we might be trying to come up

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with an essay topic or perhaps an original way to

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ask a date to prom or maybe even the best

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way to tell mom and dad that family volvo has

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a new dent in the side and doesn't look cool

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Whatever the brainstorming about the goal is to come up

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with as many ideas as possible For some of us

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this is the tricky part Instead of just writing down

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ideas they come we might take a look at idea

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numero uno and decide that it well sucks It's the

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worst idea ever we might think and worse even than

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the very concept of crab cream gratton pizza flavored doritos

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yeah judgemental brainstorming is a problem if we get all

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picky over our brainstorm before it's even really started well

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then we're putting the kibosh on the numerous ideas we

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could have had if we just locked are judging this

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up in a cabinet or a closet and let the

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brainstorm move on through creativity is fragile it carries mo

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mentum you've got to show it love The fact is

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some of the ideas we produced during a brainstorm are

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going to be terrible unoriginal just really really bad and

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that's ok because we have to mentally plow past all

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the ideas that won't get us anywhere to reach the

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really good meaty stuff that conservative the basis for whatever

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project is that we're working on This isn't to say

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that judgment doesn't have a place in the brainstorming process

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it does but only after we've written down every single

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idea in our heads so that our brains are completely

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and utterly empty Kind of like a high school during

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the holidays Once we've got that list of ideas in

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hand we can go back discard trash and treasure brian

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make list check him Check him twice like santa Hopefully

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our brainstorm will produce at least a few ideas worthy

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so we have lots of choice We might even be

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able to string multiple ideas together So like ladies and

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gentlemen and shelby just remember when it comes to brainstorming

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we have to take our desire to judge and shove

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it down a deep dark hole The surest way to

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get good ideas is toe have bad ideas and then

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the only way to get past those bad ideas wells

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to write them down and let the brainstorm work with 00:02:31.315 --> [endTime] rainy windy magic for you

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