CREATIVITY

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CREATIVITY
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Creativity

• How to UNLOCK your creative side

I hear I forgetI see I rememberI do I
understand (Chinese proverb)
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Left Brain vs Right Brain
Pattern-Oriented Simultaneous Imaginative Subjecti
ve Relational Intuitive Musical Spatial Visual
Detail-Oriented Sequential Objective Analytical Te
mporal Rational Logical Linear Verbal
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All Adds up to creativity

• Convergent Thinking (left brain)
• Divergent Thinking (right brain)
• Creative idea

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Creative To DO List

• Use pictures
• doodle , sketch, draw. Communicate with metaphors
  symbols

• Think Big
• Dont impose limits

• Journal
• Write / draw everyday, record thoughts, feelings,
  ideas

• Listen to music without lyrics
• i.e. classical music

• Chaos
• Change routines

• Explore
• Observe everything around you

• Relax
• Give your right brain freedom

• Play

• Daydream
• Let your right brain work

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How to Exercise

• Practice Automatic writing
• Write whatever comes to your mind
• Dont judge

• Brainstorm
• Quantity NOT Quality
• One idea will trigger another

• Get outside the Box
• Twist, replace, modify , eliminate, reverse
  anything
• Make the negative positive and the positive
  negative
• Frame things through the eyes of different people

• Make Unusual connections
• Take 2 unrelated items. Brainstorm possible
  connections
• Write the word in the center of the page and
  connect it by drawing lines
• Look at all connections, some creative idea will
  appear.

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Mini Quiz

• What is the color of the floor
• Grey
• Beige
• Blue
• How many doors this room has
• 1 door
• 2 doors
• 3 doors
• Does the door have a window
• Yes
• No
• What Color is the edge of this window
• White
• Grey
• Beige
• Brown
• No edge
• What is the Color of the Door
• Brown

• Color of the blackboard
• Black
• Green
• Is the blackboard divided to
• 1 division
• 2 divisions
• 3 divisions
• No division
• Color of the chair
• Blue
• Brown
• Both
• other
• What is the number of chairs
• 20 to 25
• 25 to 35
• More than 35
• Color of the walls
• White

• The projection screen has
• White edge at the bottom
• Black edge at the bottom
• No edge at the bottom
• The color of the ceiling
• White
• Brick
• Grey
• Beige
• Is there any flag in the room
• Yes
• No
• Is there any telephone in the room (other than
  your cell phones)
• Yes
• No
• How many computers / laptops are there in this
  room
• 1
• 2
• 3

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