The purpose of this stage is to build upon the dictionary definitions of “GUIDE”, “OPPONENT” and “RESTRICTED” in a free flowing, unfiltered brain dump of word associations, synonyms, antonyms and anything else that might come to mind.
For the sake of clawing back the time lost during the dictionary definitions stage, I restricted my time on each of the words, and used good old pen and paper as my tools for the job, rather than employing digital methods. The benefit being that it is far quicker to scribble down the ideas as they come into your head, but this comes with the cost of presentation. In reality, this is not a problem as the true purpose is to generate ideas for yourself,. however, in this instance, the outcome will be shared in this blog post, so all I can do is apologise to the reader for my very untidy handwriting, which you will probably find illegible. I can read it, and that’s all that really matters.
The Result
I found that once I got started, the ideas flowed fairly quickly and effortlessly, up to a point, and then a more conscious thought process engaged as the speed of idea generation reduced. 15 minutes was adequate time for each of these words and so I called a halt early, which creates 5.5 minutes of extra time for the rest of my plan, which I’m sure I will be thankful for at some point.
My Journey to App Success 