The Five W’s and One H Method represents a list of The Six Universal Questions: What? Why? Who? Where? When? and How?. Rudyard Kipling used a set of these questions to help trigger ideas in his writing. The method gets its name from the content of a fragment of a poem by Rudyard Kipling in the tale “Elephant’s Child”(Just So Stories). Author: Rudyard Kipling (1865 –1936), English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. Metaphor technique for creative problem solvingġ.Dream Journaling as a technique for finding creative solutions.Jung’s “16 associations” test as a problem solving method Freewriting – Subconscious creative technique.Role Playing as a Creative Problem Solving Technique.“What if?” – A powerful creativity and possibility thinking technique.40 Inventive Principles in classical and modern TRIZ.TRIZ – method of enhancing creativity and generating breakthrough innovations.Reversal (Inversion) as a creative problem solving technique.

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Taffy suggests a way of representing the sounds of the Tegumai language in pictograms. Neolithic man Tegumai Bopsulai is out fishing with his daughter Taffy whose attempt to send a message in a drawing leads to complete misunderstanding. 'How the Camel Got His Hump'Ī camel refuses to work and only says “humph” in response to requests for work.so a Dijnn gives him a “humph” as punishment for laziness.Ī drawing leads to misunderstanding then friendship. 'How the Whale Got His Throat'Ī whale eats a crafty man, who finds a way to escape and dam up the whale’s throat. How elephants got trunks, and how the Elephant’s Child learned to like his new feature. The Eldest Magician helps the Man with the flooding problem caused by Pau Amma, the monster crab. The story involves King Solomon, a butterfly and their wives and the question of keeping up appearences in front of one’s spouse.Ī story about the animals in the Wet Wild Woods and how the cat that walked helped domesticate all the wild animals. Tortoise and Painted Jaguar come across a new kind of creature in the woods and try to decide what it is with the help of Mother Jaguar. They give fantastical explanations for various phenomena. Just So Stories are considered some of Kipling's best works.

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