Category: Lifestyle

  • Dream Home Makeover Unveils Studio McGee: A Blend of Styles with Timeless Elegance

    The Netflix series Dream Home Make Over showed the interior design of studio McGee. This studio doesnโ€™t focus on one style, and it is famous for mixing different design styles with a great balance, for example, mixing modern and antique styles.ย  Questioning:  Maybe we can design new products using the same method? Associating: The interior…

  • Festive Unboxing: The Allure of Christmas Calendars in Showcasing and Experiencing Diverse Products

    Many brands launched products on the Christmas calendar. The Christmas calendar allows customers to test the smaller sizes of various products each day, and the various try-out experiences, the beautiful packaging, and the expectation of opening unknown gifts each day can create a better experience than purchasing one normal product. Questioning: Can we similarly reward…

  • Success in Collaboration

    The collaboration series between Uniqlo and JW ANDERSON was very successful, and it exposed both brands to people who only know one of them. Questioning: Can we use the same method at work? Associating: The collaboration of brands is a resource sharing. Brands with different customer bases can collaborate to share and gain customers from…

  • The Remarkable Journey of Moso Bamboo

    The Moso Bamboo Story. The Moso bamboo grows only 3cm in the first four years, but in the fifth year, it will grow exponentially to 15 meters in 6 weeks. This is because, in the first four years, the bamboo grows its roots very long under the ground to reach the ideal location for enough…

  • Brewing Perfection: The Art of Crafting Espresso in Three Simple Steps

    The steps for making espresso are to grind coffee beans into a powder of suitable fineness, compress it, and inject boiling water under high pressure to extract the espresso. Questioning: Isnโ€™t it the same way that we analyze information? Associating: The coffee bean was like the raw information. We needed to break it down into…

  • The Christmas margarita

    The Christmas margarita and many margaritas have salt on the rim. One reason to add salt to the rim is because the salinity brightens the sweet and sour notes. Questioning: Since salinity can brighten the sweet flavor, can effort and pain brighten the happiness? Associating: When I look back to some past experiences, the outcome…

  • The double-walled teacupย 

    Questioning: Might this technique for heat insulation also be used in other things? Associating: The air within the double walls blocks the transmission of heat, which is like the space between job and life. Keeping a space between them can prevent the impact on each other. The same is true in relationships with people with…