The Curious Researcher by Bruce Ballenger looks at a technique of brainstorming for the purpose of finding a topic of interest. This technique involves 3 steps:

1.) Creating various list of random ideas according to a number of categories. For this exercise I have chosen four of these categories: History, Jobs, Technologies and Places.
These lists are meant to be made spontaneously, simply writing whatever comes to mind.

History	Technologies	Jobs	Hobbies
World War 1	Ipod	Professional Athlete	Sport
World War 2	Iphone	Lawyer	Model-building
The Holocaust	Internet	Astronaut	Chess
Apartheid	Facebook	Intelligence officer	Language learning
Ancient Greece	Twitter	Athletic Coach	Weight lifting
Roman Empire	Laptops	Pastor	Napping
British Colonization	Netflix	Priest	Dancing
Protestant Reformation	Bluetooth	Monk	Fantasy Sport
Cold War	Wi-Fi	Doctor	Reading
Space Race	Aeroplane	Counsellor	Singing
Christian Crusades	Toaster	Chef	Surfing
Rwanda Genocide	Microwave	Psychologist	Hiking
Sudanese War	Toilet	Police officer	Car restoration
Russian Revolution	Pen	Fire fighter	Stamp collecting
Ancient Religion	Printing Press	President	Antiquing
Aristotle	Telograph	Factory labourer
Roman Gladiators	MP3	Journalist
Ancient China	Integrated Circuit	Politician
Japanese Samurai	Electricity	Librarian
Trojan War		Educator
Napoleon’s Conquests		Film Director
Hitler
The Nazi’s
The Berlin Wall
Anglo-Boer War
Discovery of gold

2.) Review the lists and select one point that you believe can be researched.
I have chosen the idea of Sport as a hobby.

3.) This topic creates a number of questions for me:

1. Is there a meaningful purpose behind professional athletics?
2. How should Christians respond to professional athletics?
3. How should Christians respond to sport in general?
4. Is there too much money invested in sport?
5. Does sport contribute to its players in a beneficial way?
6. Is professional sport actually fun for its athletes?
7. Does professionalism subtract from the enjoyment?
8. How seriously should non-professional athletes take their sport?
9. Should every competitive athlete strive to be professional?
10. Are professional athletes born or made?
11. Can God be glorified through sport.
12. Is God disappointed when talented athletes don't use their athletic ability as much as they can?
13. Does God have a say on the outcome of a sports event?
14. Is sport a good platform for evangelism?
15. How seriously should sport be taken?
16. Does sport contribute to society?
17. Is talent a in sport a real thing?

I feel that sport is an interesting topic because i find that its purposefulness is questionable.