“What Do A Cat And A Refrigerator Have In Common?”

The best creativity book you’ve never heard of was written by a Miami professor who taught the course.

Linda Caroll
6 min readOct 3, 2021

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand. — Albert Einstein

What do a cat and a refrigerator have in common?

That’s what Doctor Joseph Kayne likes to ask. Adults stare at him like he’s a couple sandwiches short of a picnic. Not the brightest light on the dash.

What kind of question is that?
Nonsensical, that’s what kind.

A cat and a refrigerator?

Funny thing was — when he asked the same question of fourth grade class at A. B. Combs Elementary School in Raleigh, North Carolina they had no problem coming up with plenty of answers.

— They both run
— They both get dirty
— They both make noise
— They come in many colors
— They both can have milk inside
— They both can scratch up…

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