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Getting Creative
Vivek Mehra
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What is creativity?Please write down 5
things that (you believe) define
creativity
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Part 1You become
what you believeDo you believe this?
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How many frescos did
Michelangelo paint before he painted the Sistine
Chapel?
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Answer:NONE
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Where did Leonardo Di
Vinci paint the Mona Lisa?Options:1. In a quiet room2. In an open space (field)3. In his studio surrounded by his students4. In a room full of singers, clowns and musicians
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Answer:
4. In a room full of singers, clowns and
musicians
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Can I influence your mooD?
Lower your Eyebrows
Raise your upper Eyelids
Narrow your Eyelids
Press your Lips together
Hold this expression. What do you feel?
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• Something like this…?
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Can I try this once again?
❖ Put a pen between your teeth in far enough so that it’s stretching the edges of your mouth back without feeling uncomfortable.
❖ What do you feel?
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But seriously...let’s try a more real exercise
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How observant are you?
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You have 1 minute to tell me which object is in both pictures.
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The answer…
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What you know prevents you from
thinking creatively ...
This equation is wrong.Move just one match stick to make
it a valid equation...
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The answer…
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Concluding Part 1Key Takeaways
We influence creative outcome by the way we think
We can change the outcome by thinking differently
We can become anything we want, if only we believe...
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Part 2Getting out of your comfort
zoneAre you ready?
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Take off your shoes
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Here is what you should be feeling...
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Place the shoes under the table and relax
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What if I asked you to step out of your comfort zone and...
Asked you to wear someone else’s shoes? Would you?
Asked you to wear shoes of the opposite gender as yours? Still comfortable?
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Place all the back shoes on the table...
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Understanding shoes,reward Rs. 3000
Build the tallest structure with the shoes
Each shoe must be touching another shoe
You can’t place any objects between shoes
The tallest structure will receive a cash award of Rs. 3000
You have 5 minutes and your time starts NOW...
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I can read your mind
Are you ready? Follow the instructions carefully
Here goes...
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Think of a 2 digit number between 10 and 99 (both inclusive)
Add the 2 digits together
Subtract the sum from the original number (if 39 is your number)
39 - (3+9) = 27
Hold the number in your thoughts... Don’t let it go!
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Find the image next to your number
Remember it...
Now I will beam it in from you...
I know what it is...
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How many of you believe I know your
symbol?
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This is the symbol you were looking at…
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Would you like me to try again?
Read the following passageI would like the person who can’t read this to
raise his hand...
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"Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabridge Uinvervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr
the litteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the
rghit pclae. The rset can be a ttoal mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is besauae ocne we laren how to raed we bgien to aargnre the lteerts in our mnid to see waht we epxcet to see. The huamn
mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but preecsievs the wrod as a wlohe. We do tihs
ucnsoniuscoly wuithot tuhoght."
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The mind is complex…
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The mind likes ‘routine’…
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What did we just learn...
The mind has comfort zones
It’s difficult to get out of these zones, but not impossible
The mind adjusts to anomalies; prompts us to see what really isn’t there
But all of these can be overcome to unleash creativity
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Part 3There is no such thing
called Failure
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What is the definition of
failure?
Please write a definition you believe to be true.
Here are a few of mine...
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But the truth is ...
What you feel like doing
What’s bothering you
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Plain truths about failure
As an infant you learnt to walk by trial and error. As an adult, you fear “trial and error”
You are taught to succeed by fearing failure
The fear of failure is “taught” by the following:
lower grades means you know less
lower education means you will earn less
lower earning means you are in a lower strata of society
low self-esteem, peer pressure follow
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The other side of failure...
Desire to succeed; DON’T fear failure
Learn to fail
Practice failure (repeat things you are not good at)
Stay in the present (failure is a projection of a future consequence)
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The other side of failure...
Some spectacular failures...Which of these failures would you rather not be?
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Part 4Ideas need to
mate
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When was steam first used?
James Watt’s steam engine was patented in 1765
Newcomen made a steam engine in 1712
Edward Somerset made a steam pump in 1663
Giovanni Battista Della Porta created a steam percolator fountain in 1601
Taqi al-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf used a steam turbine to rotate a roast spit, in 1551
Hero of Alexandria used steam to open temple doors in 1 AD
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• Answer: Hero of Alexandria used steam to open temple doors in 1 AD
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Who really invented the iPod?
Apple in 2001
Creative Labs in 1999
Sony in 1998
Fraunhofer in 1987
Kane Kramer in 1979
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The truth about the iPod…
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Idea Mating 1: Combine Randomly
Make a list of unresolved issues (or problems or objects)
Make another list of things you like (objects, thoughts, feelings)
Pair an item of List 1 with one from List 2
You will be surprised at what emerges
Let’s try this a little differently...
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Idea Mating 2: Combine Problems
Follow the same process of preparing 2 or more lists
Instead of random selection align similar problems in a list
Practical use:
Problem 1: need to move heavy objects
Problem 2: need to weigh heavy objects
Solution:???
Do you know which company first patented
the concept?
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Idea mating 3: combine ideas
You know the drill... 2 lists
Put the really diverse ones separately
Don’t be limited by your imagination, use as many adjectives and creative words as possible...
One more exercise?
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Idea Mating 4: Combine Talent
For managers:
Create brainstorm groups of diverse individuals
For individuals:
Ask the most unlikely person for a solution to your problem
Not really the best of combining ideas
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The 7 Deadly Sins that
prevent you from being
creative
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Sin 1: You don’t believe you are creative
I can’t pretend to be something I am notI can’t do thisI once tried this in school and couldn’t do itI have 2 left hands (feet?) Remember:
Michelangelo
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Sin 2: You believe myths about creativity
It’s a mystery to meIt’s for the blessed or depressedI am more right brainI am more left brain
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Sin 3: You fear failure
Do I really need to say more (on this)?
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Sin 4:You fail to actI can’t take
the riskI need to plan betterI will do it tomorrowI am scared
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Sin 5: You fail to produce Ideas
Caught in a “culture of helplessness”
I am irritated
I am not a thinker
I have so much to do
I don’t want to look stupid
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Sin 6: You fail to look at things differently
Speaking first,thinking laterI know thatIt is so obvious!This is how it was done earlierWhy should I reinvent the wheel?
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Sin 7:Failure to accept personal responsibility
I don’t have the right teamI wish I was herShe didn’t tell me how He goofed upThey forgot I haven’t done this ever
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