This week, our task was to reduce our list of 80+ ideas into a more manageable 12. \u00a0The idea was that this list would consist of\u00a0our top 3 ideas from each of the 4 belief change strategies (Reflection, Cognitive Dissonance, Identification with a Character, and Metaphor). \u00a0To do this, we began by each of us individually going through the list of 80, and picking our 3 favorites. \u00a0We also identified anywhere from 1-3 additional ideas, to ensure that\u00a0we picked at one idea from each of the 4 strategies.<\/p>\n
After this, we met up to discuss the ideas we liked. \u00a0At first, we got into in-depth discussions of each idea as they were proposed, but\u00a0when we realized we had over 20 nominations to discuss we shortened it to\u00a0briefly explaining why you liked a particular idea. \u00a0After each idea was introduced, we then went strategy by strategy, and each voted on our\u00a03 favorites. \u00a0After that, we just tallied up the votes and the top 3 in each strategy made it to our final list.<\/p>\n
For the most part, this strategy worked fairly well; we managed to reduce our list from 84 to 12 in a couple hours. \u00a0However, there was some concern at the end that perhaps\u00a0this process missed out some ideas that everyone liked, but no one person was passionate about. \u00a0Since we were only nominating our 3 favorite ideas, it’s possible that, for example, everyone’s 4th favorite idea was the same, but it didn’t even get discussed because it didn’t make the cut. \u00a0An idea like that would potentially be more useful than, say, an idea that was one person’s favorite, but everyone else’s least favorite.<\/p>\n
Because of this, it will be important to be open to ideas that may not have made the\u00a0list of 12 as we work to narrow our ideas down to 3 final pitches. \u00a0Our final pitches will need to be fairly concrete, and many of our current ideas are incomplete — perhaps\u00a0a mechanic without a story, or a story without a mechanic. \u00a0While it would be easy to simply vote on our 3 favorites from this list of 12, at this stage\u00a0we will likely need to combine parts of several different ideas together to come up with complete, interesting ideas that we feel confident in presenting at Quarters. \u00a0As a result, this next round of narrowing down will have to be more holistic than the last.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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