Hello and welcome to the twentieth day of the June 30 days writing challenge. If you want to know all the details about this specific challenge, have a look at the introductory post. In short, I will be posting every day a short tip, or technique, or opinion, something that you can call a "life hack". Feel free to join the challenge and post your own life hacks. I will do my best to upvote each day at full strength (about $3 at the current STEEM price) 3 posts tagged #challenge30days (leaving a link to your posts in the comments will also help).

How Can You Go From "Cabbage" To "Electric"?

As a kid, I loved to play games. Like all the kids in the world, I presume. But not always was I fortunate to have other kids to play with, so I had to resort to some tricks to keep my mind occupied when I was alone. One of these "tricks" was to play with words, or concepts, in a non-linear way. I think the term today will be "disruptive thinking".

For instance, I was picking two random words, like "cabbage" and "electric". The game was to go from the first word, to the second word, in 5 mental "fractures", or intermediary words. Here's how such a game would have be:

1. cabbage - cabbage makes you thirsty, so the first word from the sequence is water
2. water - water is fluid, so it can flow through pipes, the second word from the sequence is cylinder
3. cylinder - there are a lot of cylinder-like objects around us, but the most interesting for me was a rocket, so the third word is rocket
4. rocket - a rocket can obviously take you to another planet, so the fourth word is planet
5. planet - a planet can revolve around the sun, just like electrons are revolving around a nucleus, and move around, generating electricity, so the fifth word is, obviously, electricity.

So, here's the sequence:

cabbage - water - cylinder - rocket - planet - electricity

I used to play this game a lot, picking random pairs of words and trying to find all sorts of combinations. As a grown up, I even play this in the subway or during long flights, or when I wait for someone who's being late.

It's been great for my personal creativity (it really helped me during my early days as a blogger, as I never ran out of topics to write about) and improved my ability to improvise in stressful situations.

I'm really curious to read about your life hack today. Leave a comment with a link to your post, if possible.

Previous Posts In The Challenge

• June 30 Days Writing Challenge - Life Hack - Day Nineteen: Write A Short Story About Your Future Self
• June 30 Days Writing Challenge - Life Hack - Day Eighteen: Pop Out Balloons Fast
• June 30 Days Writing Challenge - Life Hack - Day Seventeen:Replace Re-Action With Action
• June 30 Days Writing Challenge - Life Hack - Day Sixteen:The 5 Minutes Meditation Box
• June 30 Days Writing Challenge - Life Hack - Day Fifteen: Create - And Maintain - A Morning Phrase
• June 30 Days Writing Challenge - Life Hack - Day Fourteen: Improve 1% Per Day
• June 30 Days Writing Challenge - Life Hack - Day Thirteen: Get Rid Of TV. For Good.
• June 30 Days Writing Challenge - Life Hack - Day Twelve: Save 10% Of Your Income - No. Matter. What.
• June 30 Days Writing Challenge - Life Hack - Day Eleven: Set - And Keep - A Monthly Personal Expense Budget
• June 30 Days Writing Challenge - Life Hack - Day Ten: Set A "Main Task" For Each Day
• June 30 Days Writing Challenge - Life Hack - Day Nine: Keep A Journal
• June 30 Days Writing Challenge - Life Hacks - Day Eight: Keep An Activity Log
• June 30 Days Writing Challenge - Life Hacks - Day Seven: Implement A New Habit With A 30 Days Challenge
• June 30 Days Writing Challenge - Life Hacks - Day Six: Put It In Front Of The Door
• June 30 Days Writing Challenge - Life Hacks - Day Five: The Pomodoro Technique
• June 30 Days Writing Challenge - Life Hacks - Day Four: Keep A Clear Mind By Unloading Ideas Immediately
• June 30 Days Writing Challenge - Life Hacks - Day Three: Intermittent Fasting
• June 30 Days Writing Challenge - Life Hacks - Day Two: The "2 Minutes" Time Management Rule
• June 30 Days Writing Challenge - Life Hacks - Day One: Avoid Fighting With A Simple Visualization Technique
• Announcing The June 30 Days Writing Challenge - Life Hacks

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I'm a serial entrepreneur, blogger and ultrarunner. You can find me mainly on my blog at Dragos Roua where I write about productivity, business, relationships and running. Here on Steemit you may stay updated by following me @dragosroua.

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