Brainstorming is a human-made group ideation technique for generating a high volume of ideas through suspended judgment. Its parameters: (1) a time-bound session where participants freely suggest ideas, (2) explicit suspension of criticism and evaluation during generation, (3) quantity over quality as the initial goal, (4) building on and combining others' suggestions (hitchhiking). The persistence mechanism is institutional teaching in business, education, and creative practice, where it is standardized as a facilitation method. [formal: brainstorming | substrate: behavior | horizon: hours | explicit: yes | epoch: 0.01]
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brainstorming
Brainstorming is a human-made group ideation technique for generating a high volume of ideas through suspended judgment. Its parameters: (1) a time-bound session where participants freely suggest ideas, (2) explicit suspension of criticism…
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A human-made group creativity technique that generates a large volume of ideas through free-wheeling, non-judgmental ideation in a collaborative setting. Built to persist through facilitation practice, business workshops, and creative methodology training.
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- brainstormingen · CANONICAL
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Brainstorming was developed by Alex Osborn specifically as a group technique FOR THE SAKE of creative problem-solving. The designed purpose is to generate ideas that feed problem-solving. Per Law 8d: servant→master, brainstorming SERVES problem-solving.
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brainstorming IS a specific kind of cognitive strategy — a structured technique for generating ideas and solving problems. A competent speaker would call brainstorming a cognitive strategy.
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brainstorming is a group creativity technique built and maintained for the sake of generating novel ideas and inventions. Per Law 8d: the servant points at the master. Brainstorming exists by design to serve invention — remove invented-idea generation and brainstorming loses its entire purpose.
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