Creativity is the ability to break from rigid habits and think differently. It involves combining objects or ideas in new ways to satisfy needs. While creativity seems mysterious, it can be cultivated by changing perspectives, using techniques like mind mapping to generate many ideas, and solving for the underlying causes rather than surface-level effects. The document encourages embracing one's creative potential by suspending judgment and exploring alternatives through soft, flexible thinking.

1. Creativity
The Key to Your Potential

2. Let’s Take a Test

3. Picture One
Tip One: Don’t ask “What is it?”
Ask “What could it be”

4. Picture Two
Tip Two: Look at things Differently

5. Picture Three
Tip Three: All ideas have potential

6. Picture Four
Remember: We all are creative

7. Creativity
What is it?

8. Creativity
The secret of genius is to carry the
spirit of the child into old age, which
means never losing your enthusiasm.
--Aldous Huxley

9. Creativity
Creativity is the ability to break
from rigid habits, the defeat of
habit by originality.

10. Creativity
A first-rate soup is more creative
than a second-rate painting.
---psychologist Abraham Maslow

11. Creativity
Creativity is simply the ability to
make new combinations of
objects, numbers, colors, notes,
chemicals, and words which
satisfy some need or desire.
For example, a clock radio is the
combination of a clock and a radio.

12. Creativity is not
The invention of something
out of nothing

13. Think, what is your idea
of a flight of stairs?

15. But there
are many
more ways
to look at
stairs

17. Draw a Snowman

25. Soft and Hard Thinking
Soft Hard
Fantasy Approximate Direct Precision
Humor Paradox Adult Work
Child Hunch Reason Focused
Metaphor Dream Analysis Logic
Play Ambiguity Specifics Reality
Generalization Diffuse Consistency Exact

26. When Do You Get Your Best Ideas?

27. Top Ten List of Idea Friendly Times
1. While sitting on the toilet.
2. While showering or shaving.
3. While commuting to work.
4. While falling asleep or waking up.
5. During a boring meeting.
6. During Leisure reading.
7. While exercising.
8. On waking up in the middle of the night.
9. While listening to a church sermon.
10. While Performing Manual Labor.

28. A Day of Ideas

37. But when you really need
to get some work done.

39. Changing the Perspective
• You start with one
viewpoint

40. Changing the Perspective
• Never Solve a
Problem from Your
Original
Perspective

41. Identifying A Problem
• Find a solution for
the cause of the
problem not the
effect of a problem

42. Using the Fishbone

43. Using the Fishbone
• Adding basic
categories

44. Using the Fishbone

45. Using the Fishbone

46. Discovering Alternatives
• Mind Mapping to
generate ideas

47. Discovering Alternatives
• Mind Maps can get
fancy

48. Discovering Alternatives
• But they start here

49. So Remember
All of us have creative potential.
Soft thinking leads to creative ideas
Different viewpoints work best.
Solve the cause, not the effect.
Good ideas come from many ideas.
Give judgment a rest, and create solutions

50. Creativity
Thank you,
now go out
there and
create!!