Creative thinking - how to get out of the box and generate ideas: Giovanni Corazza at TEDxRoma

Inside our BOX

we feel SAFE

WHAT CAN HAPPEN IF WE TRY TO STEP OUT ?

It can risk my REPUTATION

WHY

TO THINK OUT OF BOX

SO,

WE ARE NODES IN A NETWORK

WE SHARE INFORMATION AND IN THE END, ALL POSSESS

SAME INFORMATION.

IF WE ALL POSSESS SAME INFORMATION

THEN,

WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT

THE DIFFERENCE LIES IN--

WHAT WE GENERATE FROM THAT COMMON SHARED INFORMATION

HENCE,

GOING OUT OF THE BOX

IS A NECESSITY FOR US AND OUR DIGNITY AS HUMAN BEINGS

WHICHBOX ARE WE TALKING ABOUT

IT ISN’T OUR MIND

WE CANNOT THINK OUT OF OUR MINDS

SUPPOSE THIS PAGE IS OUR MIND..

THIS IS THE BOXAND CONTAINS

WHAT WE KNOW

THE REST IS WHAT STILL WE HAVEN’T THOUGHT ABOUT

CONTENTS OF THIS BOX:

1. GENETIC HERITAGE

2. BOUNDARY CONDITIONS OR ENVIRONMENT

3. INDIRECT EXPERIENCES

4. DIRECT EXPERIENCES

HOWDO WE GO OUT OF THIS BOX

WE NEED TO THINK BEYOND OUR CONVERGENT INFORMATION

THINK OF SOMETHING WHICH IS

WRONG

ABSURD

IRRELEVANT

DIVERGENT INFO

WHERE WILL IT TAKE US

THERE IS NO PRESET DIRECTION

WE SHOULD LOOK FOR ALTERNATIVES AND NOT THE CORRECT ANSWERS

WE NEED TO THINK OF SOME LONG THOUGHT WHICH CAN TAKE US FAR

ENTER THE

ZONE

SUPPOSE WE LAND UP AT A NEW IDEA THEN,

WHATIS THE VALUE OF THAT IDEA

IT IS DIFFICULT AS

We don’t feel entitled to be INVENTORS

WE THINK THAT SOMEBODY ELSE HAS DONE IT BEFORE ME AND WE TEND TO KILL OUR OWN IDEAS

AND WE HAVE TO

RESIST THIS THINKING

OF OURS

WHENIS IT A GOOD IDEA TO CHALLENGE EVERYBODY AROUND YOU

IF ENVIRONMENT PUNISHES MISTAKES THEN YOU WILL NEVER BE TEMPTED TO GO OUT OF BOX

ALLOW THE EXISTENCE OF DIVERGENT INFORMATION

RECAP1. THE DIFFERENCE IN INDIVIDUALS COME FROM A DIFFERENT APPROACH TO THE COMMON INFORMATION

2. THE BOX ISN’T OUR MIND, BUT IS A BOUNDARY IN MIND

BETWEEN WHAT WE KNOW AND WHAT IS YET

TO BE GIVEN A THOUGHT OF.3. WE CAN GET OUT OF

THE BOX BY THINKING

BEYOND OUR

CONVERGENT

INFORMATION AND

APPLYING DIVERGENT

STYLE.

4. GOING OUT OF THE BOX WILL TAKE US FAR AWAY IN OUR LONG THOUGHTS WHERE WE WILL BE ABLE TO EXPLORE ALTERNATIVES

5. WE NEED TO RESIST

OUR AD-HOC

THINKINGS i.e. STOP

THINKING THAT WE

CAN’T BE THE

INVENTORS

Created by Nandini Gupta, AKGEC,

during an internship by Prof.Sameer

Mathur, IIM Lucknow.www.IIMInternship.co

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