How to Be a Creative Thinker?

How to Be a Creative Thinker. Author: Joseph Zeoli, Senior Graphics and User Interface Developer at Miles Technologies at Miles Technologies. Download from SlideShare ➞ adf.ly/1LQ3gD

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1. How To Be MORE CREATIVE @JoeZeoliSenior Website & Graphic Designer Miles Technologies
2. Who can be creative? Creativity is not just for artists, musicians, writers, and designers. We are all creative, but the people who are known for it have spent time cultivating it, failing at it, and working at it
3. Creativity The ability to transcend traditional ideas, rules, patterns, relationships, or the like, and to create meaningful new ideas, forms, methods, interpretations, etc.; originality, progressiveness, or imagination
5. Creativity Really good associative memory. -Joe Zeoli
7. “But I’m more of a left brain person” WRONG
8. Traits that make us creative Why are some people more creative than others?
9. Why is creativity so hard?
13. Why do we have these preconceptions? Do we really need them?
14. I don’t wanna grow up! How can we keep our child-like creativity? ● Our ideas about our surrounding become set in stone in our early adult life ● Kids are relatively unbiased; they don’t carry around many of the pre-conceptions that adults do ● They’re generally much less afraid to be embarrassed by their ideas
15. That A HA! Moment. Our best ideas come in, what seems like a flash of inspiration
16. What makes a good idea? Great ideas are built out of a collection of existing parts
17. Life Outside The Box Convergent vs Divergent Thinking
18. Convergent Thinking 1 + 1 = 2
19. Divergent Thinking Spontaneous, Free-flowing, Non-linear
20. Can we make those connections easier? Absolutely!
26. Cultivate Creativity
27. “The idea is that your creativity acts like a tortoise—poking its head out nervously to see if the environment is safe before it fully emerges. Thus, you need to create a tortoise enclosure—an oasis amongst the craziness of modern life—to be a safe haven where your creativity can emerge.” -John Cleese
29. Have a ton of terrible ideas. The more ideas you can think of, the better chance you’ll have a good one.
30. Step away and do something else. Anything else.
31. Listen to or watch something funny. Laughter relaxes us.
33. Break down the problem. Start small and work your way up.
34. Give yourself restrictions. We aren’t good at making decisions.
35. Ernest Hemingway Bet he could make an entire story in six words For sale: baby shoes, never worn
36. Create a range of solutions. From a standard solution to wacky.
37. Don’t be afraid of a blank canvas. Just put anything down.
38. Don’t get discouraged “Learned Helplessness” is a real thing
39. Teamwork. How to bring out creativity in groups.
40. The Six Thinking Hats Edward de Bono
41. The White Hat Only The Facts ● What do you know about ● What are the facts ● What do you need or want to know ● Where would you go to find out this information
42. The Red Hat Our Feelings ● What are you feeling now ● Which solution is best based on your feelings ● What prejudices are present ● Do you have a gut feeling ● What does your intuition tell you
43. The Black Hat The Devil’s Advocate ● What should you be cautious about ● Of what should you be careful ● What are the difficulties ● Why won’t this work ● What are the risks
44. The Yellow Hat The Glass Half Full ● What is good about this ● What would be a positive outcome ● Can this be made to work ● What do you like about this ● What can be the value of this
45. The Green Hat New Ideas ● Can you create another way to do this ● How would you solve this problem ● What other possibilities are there ● What are some other approaches to this issue? ● Can this be done in a more simple way?
46. The Blue Hat The Process ● Summary of everything ● What’s next ● What is the action plan ● Outcome of the meeting ● Are we asking the right questions

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