Summary:
The book presents a systematic process for generating creative ideas, focusing on the importance of gathering raw material from diverse sources and then synthesizing it through a series of mental steps. It emphasizes the need for both conscious and subconscious thinking, and the interplay between them, to produce innovative concepts.
Key points:
1. Idea Production: Young states that creating ideas is a process involving gathering and processing information, not a sudden event.
Books similar to "A Technique for Producing Ideas ":
The Creative Thinking Handbook
Chris Griffiths|Melina Costi|Caragh Medlicott
How to Get Ideas
Jack Foster
The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking
Edward B. Burger|Michael Starbird
Creativity
John Cleese
Group Genius
Keith Sawyer
Too Fast to Think
Chris Lewis
Mind Management, Not Time Management
David Kadavy
The Net and the Butterfly
Olivia Fox Cabane|Judah Pollack
Creative Calling
Chase Jarvis
Hyperfocus
Chris Bailey