Using humour to increase creativity

1. Using Humour To Develop Creativity
T V T Y
R E A I I

2. Character Survey:
Which symbol does not fit with the
others?
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3. INTELLIGENT – Strong decision makers
LATERAL THINKERS – Prepared to look at all
sides
Z CREATIVE – Strong imagination, Leaders
Preoccupied with SEX and BOOZE
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5. Oscar Wilde
“If you want to tell people
the truth, make them laugh,
otherwise they'll kill you.”
― Oscar Wilde,
H U M O

6. Creativity

7. If you see in any given situation only
what everybody else can see, you
can be said to be so much a
representative of your culture that
you are of victim of it.
- S.I. Hayakawa
I D E A

8. Research is to see what
everybody else has seen,
and to think what nobody
else has thought.
-Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
I D E A

9. Human salvation lies in the
hands of the creatively
maladjusted.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I D E A

10. When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and
asked whether he could do anything for the
famed teacher, Diogenes replied: "Only stand
out of the light." Perhaps some day we shall
know how to heighten creativity. Until then,
one of the best things we can do for creative
men and women is to stand out of their light. -
John W. Gardner
I D E A

11. I do much of my creative thinking
while golfing. If people know you
are working at home they think
nothing of walking in for a coffee.
But they wouldn't dream of
interrupting you on the golf course.
- Harper Lee.
I D E A

12. An idea that is
not dangerous is
unworthy of
being called an
idea at all.
-Oscar Wilde.
I D E A

13. HUMOUR – A
DEFINITION

14. Sometimes I lie awake at
night, and ask, 'Where
have I gone wrong?' Then
a voice says to me, 'This is
going to take more than
one night.'”
Charles M. Schulz quotes
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H U M O

15. The trouble with having an
open mind, of course, is
that people will insist on
coming along and trying to
put things in it.”
― Terry Pratchett
H U M O

16. Ever notice how
'What the hell'
is always the
right answer?”
― Marilyn
Monroe.
H U M O

17. “Humor is
reason gone
mad.”
― Groucho
Marx.
H U M O

18. “Humor can be dissected as
a frog can, but the thing
dies in the process and the
innards are discouraging to
any but the pure scientific
mind.
E.B White
H U M O

19. Imagination was
given man to
compensate for what
he is not, and a sense
of humor to console
him for what he is.
Francis Bacon
H U M O

20. Comedy is a
tragedy plus
time.
Carol Burnett
H U M O

21. Emotional chaos
remembered in
tranquility
James Thurber –
H U M O

22. Humor is perhaps a sense
of intellectual perspective:
an awareness that some
things are really important,
others not; and that the
two kinds are most oddly
jumbled in everyday
affairs.
-Christopher Morley
H U M O

23. This I conceive to be the
chemical function of humor:
to change the character of
our thought.
-Lin Yutang
H U M O

24. Humor is perhaps a sense of
intellectual perspective: an
awareness that some things
are really important, others
not; and that the two kinds
are most oddly jumbled in
everyday affairs.
-Christopher Morley
H U M O

25. R I E R S
A R

26.  FEAR OF MAKING A MISTAKE
B L C K

27. Worry

28.  fear of making a mistake
 INABILITY TO TOLERATE
AMBIGUITY
B L C K

29. What
do
you
see?
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34. Can you find
a five-point
star?
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42.  fear of making a mistake
 inability to tolerate ambiguity
 JUDGING RATHER THAN
GENERATING IDEAS
B L C K

44. O L U T I O N S

45. REDEFINE THE ROBLEM
One of the characteristics that distinguish highly
creative from less creative people is that the
former spend much more time on problem
definition while the latter spend more time on
trying to discover new solutions or alternatives.
H O W ?

46. REVERSE DEFINITIONS
Sometimes it is easier to solve
the opposite problem than the
original one.
H O W ?

52. HOW TIRED I FEEL…
I UNDERSTOOD SO MUCH
TODAY!
Ashleigh Brilliant
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