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Devise
1. To use ingenuity in making, developing, or achieving: concoct, contrive, dream up, fabricate, formulate, hatch, invent, make up, think up. Informal cook up. Idioms: come up with. See make/unmake.
2. To form a strategy for: blueprint, cast, chart, conceive, contrive, design, formulate, frame, lay1, plan, project, scheme, strategize, work out. Informal dope out. Idioms: lay plans. See planned/unplanned.
3. To give (property) to another person after one's death: leave1, will. Law bequeath. See give/take/reciprocity, law.
Here's some quotes on the importance of using the mind as a creative tool in Kumite...
"“They say that necessity is the mother of invention, and when the necessity is survival she can be one mean mother, but it's her child invention that's the real dangerous one."
Darien Fawkes quotes
"“Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving."”
John Dewey quotes (American Philosopher, Psychologist and Educator, 1859-1952)
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
-- Herman Melville
"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
-- Scott Adams
"Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions."
-- Sri da Avabhas
"Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way."
-- Edward de Bono
I think it is very important to use the mind in this way...
...if a person is devising and creating on the fly then the mind is in a place free of fear and failure, it's right where it ought to be...
...completely in the here and now.
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