Friday, November 30, 2012

No idea is silly!!! Be Creative!!! Be Innovative!!!

I attended a mind throbbing session on “Proposing Ideas” few weeks back.

The program was focused on
·         Improving creativity
·         Generate more ideas
·         How to handle the rejection of ideas

Few Interesting facts:
  • 72% of the nobel prize winners are Jews
  •  One sixth of the US citizen worked in Mc Donald in some part of their life
  •  Every 5 min one article is being published in Harvard University
Hard fact for Indians:
  • The contribution of India in the area of innovation and creativity is diminishing over decades.

Why a person becomes creative and when can he/she be creative?
There may be a number of reasons to be creative but there is only one answer for “when one can be creative”.
Yes the answer is ANYTIME. Anyone can be creative anytime.
eg)In critical situation to survive or to overcome
In laziness to be comfortable
you can be creative even while doing nothing. Nothing stops anyone being creative. Be Creative!!!

When you have some idea, tell someone or write it down if you don’t wish to share at that moment.
No idea is silly. Years ago before the invention of airplane, the idea of man flying from one place to another was seen as silly and was criticized but now it is one of the most popular mode of transport. Welcome the critics with pleasure. If your ideas are not considered, it is just one of your idea which was rejected but not you. You have innumerable ideas within you. Never stop generating ideas.

One tool to generate ideas from a group is by Brainstorming. Certain conditions to be followed while conducting a Brainstorming session.
Brainstorming Conditions:
  •  Never interfere when others share their ideas
  •  Never Criticize any idea
  • Never praise any idea
Reverse Brainstorming is generating ideas for what not to do and then generating ideas for what to do

The program also covered on 6 Hats of Thinking. One should wear different hats and should think differently according to the situation.

“When all think alike, then no one is thinking”
No idea is silly !!! Be Creative !!! Be Innovative !!!
Happy Reading :)

Monday, November 26, 2012

Spend 5 mins of your valuable time for the most important person in your life






The most important person is none other than you.

I attended a Training session on “Creativity & Innovation” few months back.

I feel like sharing few things which are most essential to everyone of us.

Let me ask a question first.
If you have an answer of “No” You need not spend this 5 mins. You can close this and continue your work.

The Question is Do you have any worries or problem?
The answer would be obviously a big YES”.
 
Yes, Everyone of us have so many problems. To ensure we have so many problems, try this exercise after you finish reading this.
Just note down all the problems and worries which you face in a piece of paper or in a bunch of papers. Let it be even in hundreds. After listing the problems try to check how many are really problems? It would be interesting that 99% of the problems have more than one solutions (open ended problems). You can find a solution easily if you really need to solve the problem.
 
The second thing which attracted me is the power of the word “HOW”
Ask these two questions within yourself:
1.    Can I do this job before 5pm?
2.    HOW can I do this job before 5pm?

For most of us the first question gives an answer “I will Try”
But the second question induces the thought of how to complete the task. So let’s directly ask the second question within ourselves and complete our task within the stipulated time.

The session was much more about “Unblocking the Mind Block” and Lateral Thinking. The session was very much useful cooking track for creative thoughts
Thank you for your time.
Happy Reading :)