Seven habits of creative individuals

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Seven Habits of Highly Creative Individuals

Dr. Pavan Soni

Innovation Evangelist and Founder

Inflexion Point Consulting

Innovation.evangelist@gmail.com

www.InflexionPoint.net

About Dr. Pavan Soni• PhD from IIM Bangalore (Corporate Strategy & Policy)

• Former Innovation Evangelist at Wipro (6 years)

• Only Indian to be shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey

Business Book of the Year Award- 2016

• Bachelor of Engineering- MBM Engineering College Jodhpur (Branch

Topper) and PGDIE- NITIE Mumbai

• Recipient of ‘On-the-Job Achiever Award’- Lakshya- CII Mumbai in

2007 for the work on Innovation

• Associated with ASSOCHEM, CII, NASSCOM, Bangalore Chamber of

Industry and Commerce, and Karnataka Knowledge Commission

• Columnist at YourStory, and People Matters

• Speaker at TEDx BITS Goa, SIBM Pune and

HewlettPackardBangalore

• Coach at NSRCEL of IIM Bangalore and Founder Institute

• Mentor at UpGrad, Institute of Product Leadership, NumberNagar,

and Budli

• Advisory Board member at Utilis Capital READING | WRITING | TEACHING | COACHING

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Corporate clients (indicative )

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The vocabulary

Creativity Novelty Utility +=

Level of operation= Individual or Teams

Innovation New concept Commercialization +=

Level of operation= Organization

Sources of creativity

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The zone of ‘Flow’

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Synaptic joints in human brain

Transformation of the brain

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Development of mental abilities

Brain, with aging

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The Human Mind

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The Medici Effect

Multiple affiliations

Taking half-chances

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The opposable mind

Impact of formal education

Latent inhibitions

IQ and creativity:

Latent inhibitions

Variance, not mean centric

Creativity

Taking hobbies seriously

Intuitive experiments

The ugly prototype

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IDEO Tec box

Time off for ‘experiments’

Cultivating humour

Habits of Highly Creative Individuals

Curiosity Opposable mind Low latent inhibitions

Experimentative