The Fox Challenge: Don’t Build the Solution Yet

Most projects reward you for finding answers quickly. But moving into solution mode too early often means refining the first reasonable idea instead of discovering what else is possible. In this hands-on workshop, you'll feel that tension for yourself.

Using the same simple set of LEGO bricks, you'll move through a series of short building challenges that reveal how differently people approach open-ended problems, and what changes when you deliberately switch between exploring possibilities and making decisions. Along the way, you'll uncover the difference between divergent and convergent thinking, why both are essential, and how to recognize which mode a situation actually needs.

You'll leave with a simple mental model for moving between Explorer Mode and Decision Mode, helping you generate more possibilities before turning the right ones into solutions.

• Understand the difference between divergent and convergent thinking, and why both are essential
• Learn to recognize which thinking mode, Explorer Mode or Decision Mode, a situation actually needs
• Experience hands-on, through LEGO building challenges, how differently people approach the same open-ended problem
• Leave with a simple mental model for moving between Explorer Mode and Decision Mode to generate more possibilities before deciding on solutions