people were writing plans on a whiteboard for how we could spend the effectively-infinite amount of money we could ask for.
It’s a common exercise when doing ambitious brainstorming to start with the premise of “if money was no object” and then later come back through the ideas and think about feasibility. Turning off the critical brain can sometimes help with creativity and this is one way of doing that.
I’ve run sessions like this within EA and also within other organisations/communities. However, as a facilitator it’s always important to be clear that you’re not giving people the impression that there are no constraints, but that you don’t want them to think about the constraints while being ambitious and creative.
It’s a common exercise when doing ambitious brainstorming to start with the premise of “if money was no object” and then later come back through the ideas and think about feasibility. Turning off the critical brain can sometimes help with creativity and this is one way of doing that.
I’ve run sessions like this within EA and also within other organisations/communities. However, as a facilitator it’s always important to be clear that you’re not giving people the impression that there are no constraints, but that you don’t want them to think about the constraints while being ambitious and creative.