The Private Eye

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The Private Eye

• The Power of 5X Thinking

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Five Steps to a Magnified Mind

• Look Closely

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Looking Closely

• Intense Observation
• Block Out Rest of World
• When the familiar becomes slightly strange, real
  thinking begins

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Five Steps to a Magnified Mind

• Look Closely
• Look and Think by Analogy

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Power of the Analogy

• The greatest thing by far is to be a master of
  the metaphor --Aristotle

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Power of the Analogy

• What else does this remind me of?
• What else does it look like?
• What else
• What else

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Power of the Analogy

• Find Maple seed Helicopter
• Observe closely with the loupe
• Explore and write
• 10 what-elses
• There are no wrong answers

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Power of the Analogy

• Bones for poems
• Seeds for design
• Clues to theorize
• Ideas to invent

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Power of the Analogy

• Sandwich Poem
• Title Name of what youre louping
• 3 or 4 analogies you like
• Last Line repeat title

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Power of the Analogy

• Metaphors and Simile Compressed Analogy
• Allegory and Parable Extended Analogy
• Analogy A is to B C is to D
• Metaphor you only use 2 of the 4
• Twilight of his career.

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Five Steps to a Magnified Mind

• Look Closely
• Look and Think by Analogy
• Loupe Draw

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Drawing to Learn

• Use a pen--no erasures
• Small area in which to draw
• Go slow
• Use higher quality paper
• Add details you could only see using the loupe.

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Drawing to Learn

• Choose another object from the box.
• Loupe-Draw, Loupe-Draw, Loupe-Draw

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Five Steps to a Magnified Mind

• Look Closely
• Look and Think by Analogy
• Loupe Draw
• Theorize - Invent - Design

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Theorize - Invent - Design

• Second set of Private Eye Questions
• Why is it like that?
• Whats going on here?
• If it reminds me of _______, I wonder if it
  might work like that, or function like that in
  some way.

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Theorize - Invent - Design

• Form follows function.
• --Frank Lloyd Wright
• 99 of nature is functional

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Theorize - Invent - Design

• Daily Mental Aerobic
• Loupe-Look, or other observation
• What else X10
• Why did it remind me of that? Why is it like
  that?
• If it reminds me of ____ I wonder if it might
  work like that in some way.

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Theorize - Invent - Design

• Could I design something like this?

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Five Steps to a Magnified Mind

• Look Closely
• Look and Think by Analogy
• Loupe Draw
• Theorize - Invent - Design
• Explore

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