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One-Minute Obstacle

Goal: Boost your adaptability and creative problem-solving speed.

How it works:

Imagine you’re in a completely made-up situation (e.g., you’re trapped in a room with only a chair and a mirror). You have 60 seconds to mentally come up with a way to escape using only what’s in the room.

What it encourages:

Improv-style ideation

Adaptability and urgency

Using limited resources creatively

The Situation:

The Library Window

You're stuck in a second-floor library. The door is chained shut. There’s one large window, a ladder, and a cart full of books.

Taking books off the cart. Smashing the window with the cart. throwing books out the window in a stack. Taking the ladder to the stack, that should get me enough space to climb. Once I'm at the bottom I will jump off and be free!