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Read Chapters 3 & 4 in The Three Secrets.

You will be given expandable tables like the following to describe how you used two stimulus-variation techniques to think of new values and two stimulus-variation techniques to think of new alternatives.

Thinking Creatively about Values

Name of Technique	Stimulus (and any force-fitting)	New Value

Thinking Creatively about Alternatives

Name of Technique	Stimulus (and any force-fitting)	New Alternative

You will also be given expandable tables like the following to describe how you evaluated your set of values and your set of alternatives.

Thinking Critically about Values

Completeness	Perform the completeness test. If this leads you to add any value, indicate what it is, and perform the completeness test again.
Relevance	Indicate what value or values the relevance test leads you to drop, or if you are not dropping any, indicate which value the test indicates is the least important of those you keep.
Non-redundancy	Indicate any redundant values and how you corrected the condition. If there are no redundant values, indicate which values might be thought of as redundant and why they are not.
Testability/measurability	For each value, indicate the units of the numeric measure or the kind of objective description you will use to specify outcomes that impact that value.
Meaningfulness	Consider for each measure or description whether it relates to what you are really interested in and whether you understand it well enough to make value judgments about it. Illustrate with one choice you made among alternative measures or descriptions.
Value independence	If there is any failure of value independence, indicate what it is and what you did about it. If there is none, indicate which values could most easily be thought of as non-independent and why they are, in fact, independent.

Thinking Critically about Alternatives

Number	Indicate whether you have at least three alternatives.
Variety	Indicate whether there are substantial differences among your alternatives.
Universalizability	Indicate whether there would be a problem if everyone under similar circumstances implemented any alternative.
Publicity	Indicate whether you would not want respected others to know you had implemented any alternative.
Mutual Exclusivity	Indicate whether your alternatives are mutually exclusive or you will be using benefit/cost ratios.