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When you work on ideas, concepts and problems, you have a lot of tacit knowledge and underlying assumptions about your project. It’s a good idea to identify this knowledge so you can fully understand your problem domain as well as limitations and errors in your knowledge and assumptions. Externalization is a great way to do this. Externalization is what we do when we draw ideas, write them down, act them out or even just speak them out loud. In fact, there are four ways you can use externalization, and we can convert all four of those right into methods you can use in your ideation sessions.

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Table of contents for “Creativity” master template bundle

Bundle of 15 Creativity templates
  1. Arbitrary Constraints—A Divergent Ideation Method
  2. How to Ideate with Bad Ideas—A Divergent Ideation Method
  3. Brilliant Designer of Awful Things—A Divergent Ideation Method
  4. Oxymorons—A Divergent Ideation Method
  5. Random Metaphors—A Divergent Ideation Method
  6. Embrace Opposites
  7. Externalization
  8. More Specific and More General
  9. Multiple Classifications
  10. Three-Way Comparisons
  11. 3 Habits That Will Foster Your Creativity
  12. 7 Best Practices: How You Create the Optimal Environment to Nurture Creativity
  13. 5 Best Practices: What to Do When You Get Stuck in Executing Your Work Plan
  14. How to Plan for Creativity: Effective Time-Management Plans for Your Large-Scale Creative Projects
  15. 7 Reasons You Should Use To-Do Lists to Help You Emotionally and Make You More Efficient