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What will I need?
1. A pen and paper, or a device for digital notes.
2. An open mind ready to embrace possibilities.
Steps:
Take a deep breath and imagine: everyone has suddenly lost their sense of balance and is unable to stay upright.
Envision how this would affect the world around you. Think about different aspects: mobility, healthcare, daily life, infrastructure, economy, lovemaking, psychology, and scientific research.
Write down as many consequences and effects as you can. Try to consider both immediate and long-term implications.
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Tips, Guidance, Inspiration, and Science:
Want to keep going?
Do this exercise with a group! Exploring these scenarios together can lead to interesting discussions and ideas.
Try imagining how society might adapt to these changes. What innovative solutions could we come up with?
Challenge yourself to think about how this change might impact different parts of the world differently.
Help! I'm stuck!
Get up and walk around, pretending you don’t have a good sense of balance. (Some of us don’t have to pretend!)
Try breaking it down by category. How would this change impact transportation? Education? Entertainment?
Think about your own daily routine. What would change for you?
What's the science?
Divergent thinking (coming up with new solutions and ideas) is a skill that can be developed. (Acar, S., & Runco, M. A., 2019).
Standing on the shoulders of giants
Thanks to Dr. Roni Reiter-Palmon, an advisor to Messier and expert in creativity psychology with a focus on organizational applications of creativity.
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust
I found this exercise very unsettling, so not s enjoyable, but very interesting. Wobble World might suffer terrible catastrophic changes while offering the world a unifying experience, like a pandemic.