PROBLEM DEFINITION 202. Make a Supervillain Imagine the problem is a supervillain in a comic book.1 What is its superpower? What does it wear? Who is the hero? 203. Go Hollywood Pretend your problem is the plot of a movie. What’s the title? Who are the lead actors (hero and villain)? Who’s the director? 204. Sing the Problem Write the lyrics of a rap or country song where your problem is 2 the subject of the song . Bonus points if you perform the song. 205. Anthropomorphize the Problem Think about your problem as if it were a creature of some sort. Draw an anatomy diagram that represents the legs, arms, heart, and brain of the problem. 1 “Oh no, it’s Shrinking Budget Man. Ahhhhhhh!” 2 Our software is buggy, making it slow. / The customers are jailed, they cannot pass go. 112
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