About the Series

The Creativity Doctor’s 300+ Uses Series is a tribute to the great George Washington Carver who is widely known for coming up with over 300 uses for peanuts. Carver used what psychologists call divergent thinking, which is the idea that there can be multiple solutions to a problem or more than one use for an object, or in his case peanuts. Each book in the 300+ Uses series focuses on one object and finds hundreds of uses that range from applicable to absurd. You’ll also discover tips to help you be more creative, inspirational stories, and surprising facts. See common objects from a new perspective and stretch your imagination as you discover hundreds of ways to use a Nalgene bottle, hammer, coin, and much more.

300+ Uses for a Nalgene Bottle

What might you do with a Nalgene bottle? Here’s a hint: You can do WAY more than just drink from it. Within this book, you’ll find over 300 surprising, untested, practical, and useless ways to use a Nalgene bottle. Whether you’re camping in the desert, traveling around the world, or walking to class, 300+ Uses for a Nalgene Bottle will transform your relationship with your thirst-quenching companion. 

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  • This is a fun read—and enormously practical, especially given the importance of creativity in all of our lives! Cape explains why creativity is so valuable and how we can get better at it. His approach is a good one: There are stories about the creativity of George Washington Carver, who displayed outstanding divergent thinking, as well as a demonstration of how to expand your own imagination with divergent thinking. Much of the creativity demonstrated herein is about the uses for a Nalgene bottle but every reader will see how to apply the same creative processes to their own lives.

    -- Mark A. Runco, Ph.D., Southern Oregon University Director of Creativity Research & Programming, Editor of The Journal of Creativity, and Co-Editor of The Encyclopedia of Creativity

  • Love it! Listen to this Doctor of Creativity (and George Washington Carver) and rise to new heights in personal creativity and divergent thinking. What numerous new ideas emerge! One soon finds this practice “is also changing us” - ever more creative and bursting with new openness, flexibility, vision, vibrant health, a flood of ideas and a deep sense of fun. Finally, you will never look at a Nalgene bottle—or anything else for that matter—in the same way again.

    --Ruth Richards, M.D., Ph.D., author of the 2018 Everyday Creativity and the Healthy Mind (winner of a Silver Nautilus Award), and Co-Editor of the 2022 Chaos and Nonlinear Psychology: Keys to Creativity in Mind and Life.

  • This book delights while challenging one's brain to think in new ways. The notion that an everyday object like a Nalgene bottle could have over 300 uses, encourages us to diversify our thinking and embrace our creativity. A great read for anyone who needs to jumpstart their brainstorming.

    - Sherry Bagley, Executive Director Association for Experiential Education

  • This book is absurd! It is also inspirational, entertaining, thought-provoking, and useful. You could use it to elevate your desktop monitor or to hold down papers on a windy day. You could use it to hammer in a thumbtack or serve as a bat in some strange new game of wiffle ball you just invented. I don't think I will ever be the same now that I've read it. All I can see are possibilities now. Thanks, and curses to The Creativity Doctor!

    Dan Miller, Founder and President at Fifth Pillar Consulting.

  • Dr. Daniel Cape is an excellent divergent thinker and his creativity is showcased here in over 300 ideas. This book is about way more than water bottles. It's about how we can think creatively about any challenge we are facing.

    Amy Climer, Ph.D., Creator/Founder of Climer Cards and CEO of Climer Consulting