Outside-the-Box Thinkers' Day
March 9 · Level 7 · #719 of 2238
Outside-the-Box Thinkers' Day is an informal celebration of curiosity and unexpected solutions. It honours the willingness to question an assumption, try another approach and notice possibilities beyond the first answer that comes to mind.
How it is celebrated: there is no set ritual; creative games, puzzles and exchanges of unusual ideas suit the occasion. A group can suggest new uses for an everyday object and compare its most surprising answers.
That everyday-object game has a research counterpart. Alternative-uses tasks help researchers study divergent thinking: the ability to generate several different responses to an open-ended problem.