Creative, out of the box thinking

1. Creative, out of the box thinking

2. Why go out of the box?
When comfortable inside

3. Why to risk?
Is it a luxury or a necessity?

4. We are all part of a network.
In the end, we all possess the same information.

5. Where does dignity of humans lie?
To think creatively and expand the
knowledge.
It is a necessity!

6. We can’t think out of our minds.
The boundary lies in what we know and what we
have thought about.

7. So what exactly is out of the box thinking?
Something wrong
Something absurd
Something irrelevant
Something beyond convergent information
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Something which takes us far!

8. Necessity and difficult
Then how?

9. Associate ideas

10. Allow divergent thinking

11. Application in areas not applied before

12. Value long thinking

13. But how to start?
Start with the convergent information.
Apply a divergent modifier.
Exaggerate and then check for feasibility.

14. What builds the thinking?
• Start with initial conditions
• Boundary conditions of the problem
(Constraints)
• Indirect experiences – Second hand
• Direct experiences – First hand

15. How does one assess the value of a
new idea?
• Match between new idea and the initial
focus.
• Evaluate new idea per se – Serendipity!

16. Always resist the temptation to
go inside the box

17. Conducive for such thinking?
• If the environment doesn't punish such
mistakes.
• Stimulate thoughts and allowing mix and
match.
• Aids generation of new flow of ideas.

18. Let the creative thinking begin.
Thank you!

19. References
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEusrD8g-dM
• http://www.slideshare.net/jessedee/steal-this-presentation-
5038209
• http://www.slideshare.net/ProfessorMathur/13-mba-skillsin-
the-power-of-belief-mindset-and-success
• http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/Why-storytelling-matters-%7C-
Garr
• http://www.garrreynolds.com/preso-tips/prepare/
• http://www.slideshare.net/jessedee/you-suck-at-powerpoint
• www.duarte.com/book/resonate/

20. Disclaimer
Created by S Varadharajan, IIT Madras,
during an internship by Prof. Sameer
Mathur, IIM Lucknow.
www.IIMInternship.com