The Private EyeThe Power of 5X Thinking

Five Steps to a Magnified Mind

•Look Closely

Looking Closely

•Intense Observation

•Block Out Rest of World

•When the familiar becomes slightly strange, real thinking begins

•Look Closely

•Look and Think by Analogy

Five Steps to a Magnified Mind

Power of the Analogy

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

Power of the Analogy

•“What else does this remind me of?”

•“What else does it look like?”

•“What else”

•“What else”

Power of the Analogy

•Find Maple seed “Helicopter”

•Observe closely with the loupe

•Explore and write

•10 “what-elses”

•There are no “wrong answers”

Power of the Analogy

•Bones for poems

•Seeds for design

•Clues to theorize

•Ideas to invent

Power of the Analogy

•Sandwich Poem

•Title: Name of what you’re louping

•3 or 4 analogies you like

•Last Line: repeat title

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.”

•Look Closely

•Look and Think by Analogy

•Loupe Draw

Five Steps to a Magnified Mind

•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.

Drawing to Learn

•Choose another object from the box.

•Loupe-Draw, Loupe-Draw, Loupe-Draw

Drawing to Learn

•Look Closely

•Look and Think by Analogy

•Loupe Draw

•Theorize - Invent - Design

Five Steps to a Magnified Mind

•Second set of Private Eye Questions

•“Why is it like that?”

•“What’s going on here?”

•“If it reminds me of _______, I wonder if it might work like that, or function like that in some way.”

Theorize - Invent - Design

•“Form follows function.”

• --Frank Lloyd Wright

• 99% of nature is functional

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.

Theorize - Invent - Design

•Could I design something like this?

Theorize - Invent - Design

•Look Closely

•Look and Think by Analogy

•Loupe Draw

•Theorize - Invent - Design

•Explore

Five Steps to a Magnified Mind

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