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6. encouraging creativity
The document discusses the characteristics of creative individuals, highlighting traits such as curiosity, sensitivity, and originality, as well as their tendency to be rule-breakers and risk-takers. It also addresses factors that can hinder creativity, including negative attitudes, fear of failure, and stress. Additionally, the document emphasizes the process of creativity and differentiates types of creativity, while providing insights into how to cultivate and measure creative thinking.
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6. encouraging creativity
- 1. Encouraging Creativity PM DR FARIZAHANIS ABDUL RAZAK PM DR WAN ABDUL RAHIM WAN MOHD ISA
- 2. Learning Outcomes At theend of this lecture, you should be able to: ◦ Describe characteristics of creative people ◦ Discuss factors that encourage and/or hinder individual’s creativity
- 3. Answer these questions Whatwas the most creative thing you did in the last one day? week? …ever? Why do you think it was “creative”? How do you define “creative”?
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- 6. Some definitions the stateor quality of being creative. 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 the process by which one utilizes creative ability Dictionary.com
- 7. Steve Jobs “Creativity isjust connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things”
- 9. Three types ofcreativity (Boden, 1998) The “combinational” creativity that involves new combinations of familiar ideas. The “exploratory” creativity that involves the generation of new ideas by the exploration of structured concepts. The “transformational” creativity that involves the transformation of some dimension of the structure, so that new structures can be generated.
- 11. Features of Creativity (1) Creativityis not the product but the process Creativity involves both conscious and subconscious thinking Creative thinking can be stimulated at individual as well as group level Creative thinking can be both systematic and unsystematic Creativity is about thinking something new and whenever this new idea is implemented it brings change.
- 12. Features of Creativity (2) Creativityis not a one-time / isolated activity. Creativity is somewhat regular activity. Chance / accidental discovery of new idea does not mean creativity. Creativity requires high degree of awareness. Creativity involves pattern breaking Creative thinking involves seeking answers to questions or problems.
- 15. Some examples Ralph WaldoEmerson, one of America’s greatest thinkers, was sickly and dull as a child. Rabindranath Tagore, Bengal’s bard and Nobel Laureate, was a miserable misfit at school. Vincent van Gogh, Dutch impressionist painter, lived a life of abject poverty, developed schizophrenia and cut off one of his ears for his beloved. All these people were unique in their own ways. If we scan the life and times of most creative people, we would find a varied range of idiosyncrasies, habits and tendencies that characterize them.
- 16. Characteristics of creative people (1) Curiosity Manychildren have problems fitting in the school framework because of their curiosity, their tendency to question more. Creative misfits can be differentiated from dull mischief-mongers by their basic liveliness, awareness and individuality.
- 17. Characteristics of creative people (2) Loners Creativeindividuals often prefer being alone for various reasons. They also have a strong tendency of doing things in their own, slightly offbeat, way.
- 18. Characteristics of creative people (3) Rule-breaker Theinnate originality of a creative person’s thoughts and ideas often make him swim against the current of the world.
- 19. Characteristics of creative people (4) Originaland imaginative Creativity is often characterized by original thinking, sometimes laced with a sense of humour, even when things are not going well.
- 20. Characteristics of creative people (5) Sensitive Sensitivityfuels the creative power. ◦ Of course, creative people are not always sensitive in the same way, nor do they react similarly. But the quality of awareness makes them notice things.
- 21. Characteristics of creative people (6) Adventurous Adesire to explore the unknown, both externally and internally within the mind, is also an important ingredient of creativity.
- 22. Other Characteristics ofCreative People Risk-taker Perseverance
- 23. How to measurecreativity? GUILFORDS PSYCHOMETRIC APPROACH TORRANCE TESTS OF CREATIVE THINKING
- 24. Use this circlefor prompt drawing. Draw for 1 minute.
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- 27. Assuming that youown a company that makes bath soaps. The bath soaps that are ready for shipmentareplacedintheboxes.Intheproductionline,whatisthecheapestandcreativewayto checkwhetherornottheboxescontainsoapswithoutopeningtheboxes?
- 28. The answer is… Powerfulfan If the box is empty, it will get blown
- 29. Try to takethe creative test: • In the morning • At night • When are you most creative?
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- 32. A mother whounites her deceased child! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p8HZVCZSkc
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- 35. 1. Negative Attitudes ■Tendency to focus on the negative aspects of the problem ■ Expend energy on worry ■ Find the opportunities in situations Believe you can Don’t focus on the problems Think what to achieve and how Take different views of situation
- 36. 2. Fear ofFailure ■ Fear of looking foolish ■ Fear of being laughed at ■ See failure as a learning opportunity Helps identify your weaknesses Helps discover what doesn’t work
- 37. 3. Stress ■ Nothaving time to think creatively ■ Cannot be objective ■ Ability to innovate spells success, create growth, ROI Provide strategic alignment Have cross- functional expertise ■ Stress reduces quality of mental process Challenge assumptions Brainstorm always Reward ideas Allow failure
- 38. 4. Following Rules ■Conformist to accepted beliefs/rules ■ Some rules are necessary, but others encourage mental laziness. "Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction." ~ Pablo Picasso
- 39. 5. Making Assumptions ■Conscious and unconscious assumptions restrict creative thinking ■ Challenge assumptions Identify and examine assumptions you are making Ensure assumptions are not excluding new ideas
- 40. 6. Over-reliance onLogic ■ Invest only on logical/analytical thinking ■ "Innovation is not the product of logical thought, although the result is tied to logical structure." ~ Albert Einstein Synergize diversities ■ Not able to imagine things, be intuitive, or have a sense of humour Creative dissatisfaction Creative chaos and fun
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- 43. Reflection Describe characteristics of creativepeople 01 Discuss factors that encourage and/or hinder individual’s creativity 02