Examples of WIPED SWABS

This post has examples of thinking "journeys" generated with the WIPED SWABS thinking tools. 

Example 1

For the first example I'm going to choose an unusual focus: my ignorance of Wat Tyler, with the emphasis being on the ignorance. This is the extent of my knowledge of Wat Tyler:

Around14th century?

British.

Rebellion? Possibly the poor against the rich? 

For this example I'm going to go through all the WIPED SWABS tools one by one. The alternative (which I enjoy more because it involves more interesting tangents) is to pick the which tool I'll use by random means.

Wat Tyler

What if I told you...Someone alive now wants to emulate him.

Interrupt: I'm thinking about Wat Tyler, and my lack of Wat Tyler knowledge.

P. Positive: I may find out about history. (Positive of that = I might find other historic areas of interest.)

Everyone Would Call It: Tyler project.

Dictionary: Wat Tyler was a14th century peasant who rebelled against the rich.

Superpowers: What would I do if couldn't fail? Answer: Go back in time and meet him.

Won't: I won't...read the entire Wikipedia entry on him. 

Advice: See if there any famous paintings depicting him (like a Bayeux Tapestry kind of thing).

Big or Small thing? Answer: Small. General interest. My life won't be affected too much by my lack of knowledge of Wat Tyler.

Sentence: (My ignorance of Wat Tyler) is a sentence. It's also a fact. 

Next I'll pick one of the thoughts generated above and run through the WIPED SWABS tools again. I choose: Reading the entire Wikipedia entry on him. 

Reading entire Wikipedia entry on Wat Tyler. 

What if I told you... Your knowledge of history is so poor you'll have no idea of context.

Interrupt: I'm thinking about reading an entire Wiki entry on Wat Tyler.

Positive: I'll learn about Wat Tyler. (Negative of that): I might find that era of history doesn't interest me.(Negative of that): I might be wasting my time filling my head with useless knowledge.

Everyone Would Call It: Intensive learning. Or Wikipedia learning.

Dictionary: Learning about a topic by reading an entire Wikipedia entry.

Superpower (What would you do if you couldn't fail?) Answer: Speed-learn the Wikipedia entry in one second.

Won't: I won't research the topic well enough to be able to critique the Wikipedia entry.

Advice: Find out what kinds of diseases were around in Wat Tyler's time to "fill out" your knowledge of those times.

Big or small: It would probably be a big undertaking to read the entire Wikipedia entry and learn it.

Sentence: (Read entire Wikipedia entry on Wat Tyler) is a sentence. The sentence is a goal. 

More examples to come...