[简答题] 1. Get ready to play. Like other types of creativity, social inventiveness flourishes when you begin thinking outside conventional boundaries. Charlie Girsch, a St. Paul, Minnesota based creativity consultant, suggests that you start by playing with obviously absurd explanations for everyday, events. If traffic is slow, you’’ll be tempted to say, Hmm. Must be an accident up ahead. Instead, try saying, Must be a family of turtles crossing the highway or I expect there’s some kind of alien abduction going on. ’’You’’ll be amazed how soon you will be looking at familiar problems in new ways. "Girsch’’s book, Fanning the Creative Spirit (Creativity Central, 1999) has scores of other exercises for limbering up the inventive part of your brain. 2. Generate a zillion far = fetched ideas. Concerned about the homeless in your neighborhood Imagine a Homeless Parliament, a Homeless Circus, homeless families forming an orchestra, a homeless museum.., and on and on. Generate like