The document discusses creative thinking and generating ideas by thinking outside the box. It explains that thinking convergently relies on existing information and patterns, while divergent thinking goes beyond what is known to cross boundaries in the mind. To think creatively outside the box, one must allow divergent thinking and combine divergent and convergent approaches. Common barriers to thinking outside the box include feeling ideas must have been done before, and resisting new ideas that challenge the status quo. The key is resisting the urge to go back inside the box and valuing long-term thinking over fast responses.

1. THINK
CREATIVE
Created by: Dipanshu Sehjal
IIIT Allahabad

2. Generate
Ideas
The Magic of Creative
Thinking

3. Can you think of a
place to hold a
conference talk for
a thousand of
people as an
audience.

5. Its too difficult.
Doesn’t makes any
sense.
How to fill the
stadium?

6. Think of having it during
Half time of a
football match

7. Let’s dig more for
information with

8. How to get out of-
the-box and
generate ideas
A Tedx Talk by Giovanni
Corazza

9. Don’t be mainstream, take risks
Be
Different

10. KNOW how to get out-of-
the box.
Develop your mind for
Creative thinking

11. WHY

12. We all share the same pool of information. What is the difference
between ourselves? Where does our dignities as human beings
lie?
Answer: Well, it really depends upon how we think, what we
interpret and what we generate with that common shared
information.

13. Thinking Creatively out-of-the
box is not a luxury.
It is a NECESSITY.

14. WHICH
Box?

15. It is the boundary in our mind between
what we know and what we haven’t still
thought about.

16. The box we live in is created of :
OUR Teachings
OUR Success
OUR Failures
OUR Experiences

17. Which makes up , in most parts who we are.
And whatever is outside of this BOX
is invisible to us.

18. That is why we feel too risky to go out.

19. How
to think out of the box

20. We have developed specifications for things.
We know how the things are because that’s
the way they have always been.
This is Known as Convergent Information

21. To go out-of-the box
Need Something more that goes beyond the
convergent information
To cross the borders within our minds
between what we know and what we do not
know yet.
This is Known as Divergent Information

22. WHERE

23. Out of the box, takes us to a place where we don’t
know where to go now. It is because we have no
preset direction when we are out-of-the box.

24. Most of the people resist in taking a forward step.
They stumble and move backward.
And they go back inside the box !

25. Resist the temptation
to go back.

26. Value Long Thinking
instead of
Fast Thinking

27. What
hinders us ?

28. We don’t feel entitled to be
inventors
If it is correct somebody else
must have done it before me.

29. These are all natural mechanism
with which we kill our own ideas.
We have to RESIST it.

30. WHEN

31. We know that bringing new ideas will
challenge our existing environment.

32. So, when it is a good
idea to think
out of the box ?

33. Answer is

34. You Need to allow the existence of divergent thinking
and mix and match the divergent and convergent
disciplines effectively to generate the creative ideas.

35. ALWAYS
REMEMBER

38. Created By: Dipanshu Sehjal, IIIT Allahabad
During an Internship by Prof. Sameer Mathur
IIM Lucknow
www.IIMInternship.com