Richard_Kennaway comments on Is it worth your time to read a lot of self help and how to books?

Richard_Kennaway 29 Oct 2013 12:59 UTC
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Yeah, I’d expect so… to the extent that this is the optimal method, picking words at random out of an dictionary could be useful.

I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic here.

Neither can I, but it is a technique (one of many) suggested by Edward de Bono for coming up with ideas.
- TheOtherDave 29 Oct 2013 13:54 UTC
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  Picking words out of the dictionary works IME, but not very well… I find I need prompts with more internal structure than that. But picking clusters of words (like, 5 words at random) can work OK. Opening books to random sentences works better, and some books work better than others. That said, I find that generating “random” sentences works better for me.