CREATIVITY RE-DEFINED

IntroductionHey, great team members, can you see my awesome

smile?I AM ADEEL MANNAN!

Well, I am Desiree

Maultsby.Hello, creativity

re-defined, I am Hephzber

Obiorah.

And I am the Smart “Atif

Siddiqui”

Nice one, guys, I am the happily married man, named Hong

Sam.

Where we liveI live in Lahore, Punjab,

Pakistan!

I live in Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A

Wow, dears!Guess what?I live in Yola,

Adamawa State, Nigeria.

I live in Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

I live in Singapore, Singapore,

Singapore (Triple Singapores, lol)

Who is the senior in this course?

I’m certainly not, I joined venture lab about 1 month

ago.

That makes three of us! I joined about 1 month

ago, too!Lol, Atif, really?I’m probably a

sophomore then, I joined 1 month

ago.

Of course I am, I joined

venture-lab 6 months ago!

Uh, uh……..I joined only 8 days ago. Am I the freshman?

How many hours do you plan to spend on course projects?

7 to 9 hours per week! Isn’t that quite a huge time

investment?

Me too!

Wow, me too!

Me too!!!!!!

We have that in common, perhaps that’s why we are in the same team!

What language do you speak often?

English Language

I don’t want to sound like a

copy cat, but me too!

Me too!

Oh no! that is not another

common feature of this

team.

Of course it is! You and I speak

English often too.

Best Means of Communication

Skype and Facebook

Emails and FacebookSkype. Atif, all

those? How many windows are usually open on your system

at once?

A lot more than all of you have:

Google+, Facebook,

Twitter, Gmail, Gtalk, Skype 

Emails and WhatsApp

Marital Status

Single

Married

SingleWe envy Sam, don’t

we? “He did not forget to add “happily”

Uh…uh…..Single

Happily Married.

Hobbies

Playing with Ideas, Exploring Humans, Immense

Reading……..

Reading, hiking, bicycling, dancing

Reading Novels: Judith Gould and Jeffrey Archer are

my favorite authors.

Blogging, Software Apps,

Cricket and photos.

Playing Guitar.Seems like three

of us love reading huh???

Who is your Role Model?

Rumi

Desiree, like most Americans huh?

ObamaChinua Achebe. Atif, what a great sense of

self-confidence!

I’m with you Sam, on Nelson. He’s the African

hero!

Myself, because no one is smarter than

I am!

Nelson Mandela

Best Food

Beef steaks with a lot of cheese and mashed potatoes.

ThaiI’m with you on this, Sam, just add these to

the fried rice and it’s my favorite too: chicken, salad and vegetable

soup

Junk food

Fried rice.

Is that healthy, Atif?

Career Aspiration

To create values in the lives of human by my crazy ideas. 

To found a non-profit for creativity

and conscious awareness. 

I have always wanted to speak to youths from

my heart.

Writing will help me achieve this.

To write software that

people need and sell it for free.

To run a thriving, social responsible business entity .

Most Embarrassing Moment

When I got to know that people were doing back biting

about me, because I am positively different from them.

Falling in a department

store 

When I was called up to a stage in church to sing in my native

tongue. Once I started, everything else stopped – the band, the guitar,

the saxophone everything

I'm never embarrassed doing anything, I

rather make it funnier so people could laugh

and forget. 

I was caught tongue tight when

suppose to be fluent 

Method of Stress Relief

I breathe a lot, crazy?

Nah,

Eat, walk 

I hang out with lots of friends and chat

my stress away.

I sit alone and figure the way

out. 

Eat and sleep .

Most Comfortable Outfit

Pajamas

T-shirt & fitness pants 

Leggings and a tank top

Many of us love t-shirts, I see…….

Jeans, T-shirt .

T-shirt, shorts and bare footed 

Primary Motivation in Life

To bring some value in human lives.

Yeah my mother too

My heart continues to pull me towards my

goal. I am loved – by God, by my friends,

everybody.Why should I give up

on such a beautiful life?

There are people in world to

whom my life matters. 

To support my family. 

Bad Habits you want to drop

I trust people very quickly

Eating in the middle of the

night 

Shyness

Waking up late 

Organization with focus

perseverance 

Good Habits you are proud of

I am always honest and pure like flowing water. No

impurity !!

Taoist Energetic Healing

Practices.I am always

cheerful………That’s why most people

love me.

I sleep late (I sleep 4-5 hours)

Willingness to learn

Final Comment

I LOVE MY TEAM!

ME TOO!

ME TOO!!

I guess that’s another

characteristic we share!

ME TOO!!!!!!

ME TOO!!!

WE MAKE A GREAT TEAM !

Slides by Hephzber

(Thanks to Tina Seelig's “Crash Course on Creativity”)

Courtesy of Stanford University