I read about this 'divergence test' the other day in 'Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell'. Instead of using logic to converge to one right answer, it requires to use your imagination and take your mind in as many different directions as possible. Give yourself a minute and come up with as many different possible uses of 1. brick and 2. blanket. I took way more than a minute but come up with the following:
Brick can be used to build a kiln, to make more bricks
to build building and path
to build wall, to keep people in and/or people out
to throw at window, to stop more building and path
to kill someone and sink the dead body
to build a tomb to keep the dead body
to be a memory/ proof of love (楊度）
to save water in the toilet tank
to stop a wheel from rolling or door from closing
to build a dam to hold back water
to carve on to make sculpture
to be as the subject of a test.......
Blanket can be used to keep warm, cool, or from the sun
to hide behind or under
to put on ground for picnic, sleep on, make love
to kill someone and wrap the body in
as a sail to catch wind
as a net to catch things/ people/ animals
as a cover/ dress
as a parachute, to drop something like a brick down a building
as a toy for a child
as a memory/ proof of love
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