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Identify your most vexing problems. What are you most immovable blockages; the most harrowing polarities that refuse to budge. Identify most vexing aspects of those problems. Break it down to an anatomy. Isolate each individual part. Draw a picture of this machine and what each part looks like. These individual parts are variables, things that can be changed and substituted with other alternatives.

Think of alternatives to each variable, thinking of new variables in the process, or perhaps merging existing variables into one.  For each variable, illustrate it as a shape along a spectrum of possibilities that are possible alternatives that one variable. Add more blank shapes along the same line and try to insert meanings into them. This conceptualizes the idea that the alternative exists, you just have to fill in that silhouette in the grid.

Another way is to make a clay representation of each variable and mold it into different shapes to come up with new variations of the same variable.

The goal of this fluid intelligence game is to come up with a sufficient number of alternatives that you can be to think less rigidly about what is possible.