Free Word Association Technique

[dtlender]

-Word Association is a common word game involving an exchange of words that are associated together. The game is based on the noun phrase word association, meaning "stimulation of an associative pattern by a word" or "the connection and production of other words in response to a given word, done spontaneously as a game, creative technique, or in a psychiatric evaluation". -Wikipedia

Does anybody else utilize this technique? What would be the payoff of doing this technique daily over a long period of time? Would this encourage one to think more systemically, would it change the way you think?

[Oliver Saavedra]

I think it would train you to be more right-brained and thus more systemic and creative, because your right hemisphere thinks in non-linear networks and free association encourages that.

Don't just free-associate words, do it with concepts, play with and idea and follow it wherever it takes you!