ENHANCING CREATIVITYHow to have more ideas

WHAT IS CREATIVITY? What is creativity? (It is like love;

everybody knows it, but can not exactly describe it)

Everybody talks about creativity;

How do you enhance creativity?

SOME WAYS TO ENHANCE CREATIVITYl. Reframe the question: 5 + 5= ? Or > only one answer x + y = `10 > infinite number of answer 2. Crisis questions: cf swordfish; find the code in 60 secs; how to escape a trap

3. One word question in Oxford entrance exam

4. Lucky persons - are observant

WAYS ON HOW TO ENHANCE CREATIVITY

By Tina Sellig of Stanford Univrsity in her forthcoming book “Ingenuity”

1. Observe2. Connect and Combine (crazy quilt)3. Challenge assumption (do not accept the

first answer)4. Reframe the problem5. Space6. Time matters7. Attitude8. Culture

CREATE AND COMBINE

REPHRASE PROBLEMS

SPACE

REFRAME QUESTIONS

CHALLENGE ASSUMPTIONS

TIME MATTERS (UNDER PRESSURE)

ATTITUDE

CULTURE

CULTURE Creativity ecosystem:

INTERNAL FACTORS: Imagination, Attitude, Knowledge

EXTERNAL FACTORS: Culture, habitat, resources

Internal factors affects/drives the external factors which in turn affect the internal factors in an endless cycle

From lecture of Ms. Tina Sellig at REE Feb 3, 2012 in Bangkok