I've taken real creativity tests before (the ones that movie studios give for entrance to their internship programs). They are hard to grade but I think far more accurate. They have questions like:
- Name as many uses for a brick as possible in 10 minutes.
- You've been told that a scene calls for a visual of water flowing uphill. How do you accomplish this?
And keep in mind that these questions were for internships in making TV and film, where exactly this kind of creativity is necessary.
unrelated, but how many can you come up with? I’m struggling after only 4 or so uses..
Here's some odd ones though:
- Keep a car going by putting it on the accelerator
- Doorstop
- Counterweight
- Stairs for a mouse
- as a paperweight
- to keep an elevator open
- as a murder weapon
- for weight training
- as a miniature grave stone
- for practicing long throws
- as a reminder (place it somewhere where you want to be reminded of something, like a knot in a handkerchief)
- as a step-stone to reach the upper shelf
- to keep a button pushed down
- to test how deep the chasm is (drop it in and hear it hit the bottom)
- to prop up whatever
- as a counterweight
- as a fraudulent shipment for something sold on Ebay
- as an anchor for a toy boat
- to train your karate chops
- for cracking nuts open
- as a slingshot (with a rope)
- as a pendulum (same)
- as a hammer (for nails, tenderizing meat, making crushed ice from ice cubes in a bag, …)
- as a digging or carving tool
- practicing to balance it on my finger
- raising the height of my monitor
- for blocking a mousehole
- for milling grains
- for opening a capped bottle
- as a bookend
…I could go on.
I now feel like bragging, but it seems like there’s almost no end to the possible uses.
(It works very poorly for this, and I speak from recent personal experience)