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30.12.02

AN ENCOUNTER WITH CREATIVITY

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 We will start with the following exercise :

1. When was the last time you came up with a Creative
(which you felt) idea?
This morning
Yesterday
Last week
Last month
Last year
2. What was it?
3. What motivates you to be creative?
Keep your feedback for above, we will review at
appropriate time.
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 QUESTIONS. LIKE THESE, WILL LINGER IN ONES MIND

WHEN WE START TALKING OF CREATIVE

Why be creative ?
Why challenge rules??
Why run risk of failing & looking foolish???

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 THE ANSWERS .
Change is mandatory in ever changing world
New info / concepts aid to solve problems
May be, we will not be able to solve Current problems
with Yesterdays solutions
For survival (Survival of the fittest)
Only possible thro innovative / creative / break through
concepts ideas / thinking
Generating ideas is lot of fun.
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WHAT IS CREATIVE THINKING :

Creative thinking requires an outlook that allows you to
search for ideas & play with your knowledge & experience.
With this outlook, you try different approaches, use crazy,
foolish & impractical ideas as stepping stones to practical
new ideas.
You break the rules occasionally & explore ideas in unusual
outside places.
Your creative outlook enables you to come with new ideas.
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Creative person wants to know-it all

About ancient history

19th century mathematics
Robust design
Current manufacturing technology
Flower arranging
Palmistry
This person never knows when these ideas might come
together to form new idea.
Creative person has faith that it will happen!

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CASE STUDY : IDEAS OF DIFFERENT AREAS COMING

TOGETHER TO FORM NEW IDEAS
BALL BEARING :
Exercise :
Lets suppose that you are a marketing hot shot. You get a call
from the president of a large company and learn that somehow
his inventory system has fouled up, and his company now has
a $1,00,000 over-supply of ball bearings. Your task is to think
of things to do with the ball bearings, using them either
one-at-a-time or in combinations. Take a minute to list your
ideas.
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Some of the opportunities :

Use them as level testers
Sew them into a canvas vest and use them as weight
clothing for athletes-in-training.
Make furniture out of them - like bean bag chairs - to be
used in public places. Since theyd be heavy, they
wouldnt get stolen.
Make jewelry out of them: earrings, bracelets, and
necklaces.
Serve them as robot caviar (when your home robot is
having friends over)
Put them on the bottom of uneven curtains and use them
as curtain weights.
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BALL BEARING IS THE THING THAT REDUCE FRICTION

If you see as
Shiny & pretty things
gives jewellery / art ideas
If you see as
Mass characteristics
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gives weights / ballast ideas

Example
Wine Press

Coin Press

Paper Printing Press (Johan Gutenberg)

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Creativity consists of looking at the

same thing as everyone else and
Thinking something different.

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Example : 1
An eccentric old king wants to give his throne to one of his two
sons. He decides that a horse race will be run and the son who
owns the slower horse will become king. The sons, each fearing
that the other will cheat by having his horse run less fast than it
is capable, ask the court fool for his advice. With only two words
the fool tells them how to make sure that the race will be fair.
What are the two words?
Example : 2
Can you think of a way in which you put a sheet of newspaper on the
floor so that when two people stand face to face on it, they wont be
able to touch one another? Cutting or tearing the paper is not allowed.
Neither is trying up the people or preventing them from moving.
Example : 3
Shown below is a Roman numeral nine. By adding only a single line,
turn in into a 6
IX

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SUMMARY :
There is a hidden Creative person in each & everyone
of us
Need to wake-up this Creative Person .
Creativity is looking at same thing as every one else
and thinking something different.

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Hope you enjoyed the session

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