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This document discusses how to think creatively and generate new ideas by thinking "outside the box." It explains that our normal way of thinking is constrained by boundaries in our minds formed by our experiences and education. To develop creative ideas, it is necessary to combine convergent information we already know with divergent information from new, unknown sources. This involves suspending judgment in an unknown mental space and resisting the urge to return to safe, established ideas. Generating creative thoughts is a process of open-minded association and combination of ideas that occurs rapidly, within a few seconds. The document provides an example of reimagining a TED talk in unconventional ways, like holding it in a stadium, to illustrate thinking outside normal constraints.
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- 1. Creative thinking ā howto think out of the box and generate new ideas
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- 3. Some task appearto be easy
- 4. But are difficultto perform
- 5. Your boss askingyou to think out of the box and give your innovative ideas and opinion .
- 6. But you areunable to answer
- 8. So now welook forth how to simplify this not so simple task with our journey of why how and when
- 9. Why we needto go out of the box ?
- 10. When we areinside the box we are agree to everybody When we go out of the box our years long reputation is at stake so why we need to go out of that safe box
- 11. We all arenodes of information and share same data What maintains our dignity as human beings generating creative information from same shared data so it is a necessity ā¦.
- 12. Which box arewe talking about
- 13. This box isnot out of our mind it is the boundary or wall within our mind between what we know and what we donāt know
- 14. Our box orsafe zone is the mixture of indirect experiences that we have learnt in school and universities and direct experiences which we have gathered from our own success and failure
- 15. How to thinkout of the box do we need to wait for an apple to fall
- 16. When we havea task or a focus area we combine the convergent and divergent thought to generate the creative idea ..
- 17. Convergent information arethe specifications and basic information related to the focus area which we have always known or the information which has always existed Divergent information is the creative thought or idea which is out of the box
- 18. When we arethinking out of the box we are in a dark place suspended in between something unknown We donāt have any preset conditions to act accordingly
- 19. At this pointof time we have the feeling to go back into the safe old box but we have to resist this feeling Came out of the box
- 20. Generating creative ideasrequire Long thinking We need to go far We do not have to focus on each note of the song but have to feel the whole symbolism and aura of the song
- 21. When we areon a journey out of the box- association and combination of ideas Extraction from the known information. We need to be open minded We need to be fluent
- 22. When we arecreative no single answer is correct We need to look for the alternatives
- 23. Assessment of ourcreative idea
- 24. when we areout of the box we are in a completely unknown territory so how do we judge ?
- 25. Avoid pre assessment thisis the mechanism to kill our new idea
- 26. We need tolook at the match between our new or the creative idea and convergent information that is the information inside the box that has always existed of focus area
- 27. Should we challengethe environment by going out of the box what if the environment punishes us
- 28. If it punisheswe will not go out of the box So we need to stimulate the environment to be creative by allowing flow of divergent information and metaphors in the work place or the organisation
- 29. A blink ofa eye phenomenon or less than that Generation of a creative idea out of the box takes place within few seconds
- 30. Understanding the conceptby an example- We try to make the TEDx talk creative results of thinking out of the box - ā¢ talk can be held in stadium may be during half time of a football match ā¢ Brilliant speakers replaced by normal speaker with script WILL THESE IDEAS WORK?
- 31. RECAP ļ¶ easy taskof thinking out of the box ļ¶ why should we think out of the box ļ¶ creative thinking a necessity ļ¶ How to think out of the box ļ¶ concept of long thinking ļ¶ how to assess our idea ļ¶ example of TEDx recreation
- 33. DISCLAIMER Prominent font āBernard MT Condensed, Blackaddder ITC, Badoni MT Black, Cambria Math, Century 725 CnBT,Century751BT Formatting used- images , backgrounds, rotation , wordart ācreated by Kriti Srivastava, H.B.T.I Kanpur during an internship with Prof. Sameer Mathur, IIM LUCKNOW WWW.IIMInternship.comā