The biggest hurdle for people to get over to become creative is to learn to love the process. Get used to spewing tricks out of your head, even the terrible ones.
Luke Oseland reminded me that consultants will sometimes play a game called ping pong.
The game involves two players taking it in turns to throw up an idea for a trick. You can imagine you need to say your idea every time you hit an imaginary ping pong ball back across the table.
The game creates urgency, reduces the pressure for every idea to be good, and rewards concise ideas. To play the game, you usually need some structure to what you are trying to create, like tricks for a location or with certain objects.
I’ll give some examples of these “thrown-up” magic ideas today.
