The document discusses creativity and the factors that influence it. It notes that most children are born with a natural creativity and imagination, but that as they grow up and conform to social pressures, layers of behavior develop that inhibit their creative potential. Specifically, it discusses how a lack of challenging one's creative spark over time can cause that spark to shrink and eventually be extinguished. The document also examines various personal and environmental barriers that can block creative thought and innovative action.

1. suspending
POPCORNED BY DEY DOS
paradigms

2. DO YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO
LET GO OF YOUR JUDGEMENTS
AND ASSUMPTIONS?
How open are you
to new ideas?

3. “an impressive body of solid
research over the past few decades
has conclusively proved that
most of us were born with rich and
vigorous imaginations, and that
creative ability is almost
universally distributed.”
raudsepp & hough

4. Amy Purdy - Living Beyond Limits
VIDEO

5. Never let your printer
know that you are in a
hurry…
PRINTERS CAN SMELL
YOUR FEAR!
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6. EVERY TIME WE ENCOUNTER A CHALLENGE,
WE GET TO KNOW HOW
INNOVATIVE WE CAN BE
How do you usually respond
to experiences that demand
you to be creative?
anger Ÿ detachment Ÿ ignore it

7. “Creativity as a fundamental
trait is possessed by every
person… [and yet] very few
people make use of their
creative potential.”
Knecheges & Woods

8. “creativity is contingent upon the
preservation of the curiosity and
wonder we had in early
childhood… [and that]
unfortunately,… is the one thing
that is conspicuous by its absence
in most grownups”
raudsepp & hough

9. What are we
becoming?
IS AIESEC MAKING US
OLD?

10. THIS IS HOW IT GOES
Most small children are very creative…
What helps or hinders creativity?
The inhibition of creativity increases as
children conform to the social pressures of
the educational process and/or as they
interact in society.
Eventually, layers of behaviors are
developed that thwart the creative
potential.
AND HOW IT ENDS…

11. “Very often, a person’s sense of creativity is
not challenged…
The spark does not emit as much energy.
This spark shrinks and shrinks until no
radiation emits from it.
If a person’s creative spark is not challenged
or if this energy is restricted, this
confinement becomes tighter and tighter
until the spark is finally extinguished.”
doxidis

12. “Studies have revealed that
there are certain factors that
block the creative process and
that a conscious effort to
avoid or overcome these
blocks can enhance creativity.”
ross

13. FINDING OUT
BARRIERS TO CREATIVE
THOUGHT AND INNOVATIVE
ACTION

14. A. Personal feelings of security, such as low self-esteem,
feelings of anxiety, fear of criticism, fear of failure, or lack
of curiosity;
B. Need for superficial security, such as lack of risk taking
or not trying new things;
C. Inability to use the unconscious, such as not using
visualization or fantasy;
D. Inability to use the conscious mind effectively, for
example, inability to organize data;
E. Work-oriented barriers, such as “keep trying,” “always
prepared,” “ready?”; and
F. Environmental barriers, such as the need to find the
proper setting, and to give oneself every advantage.

15. Which scores seem to
fit?
Which scores do not
seem to fit?
Which one
surprised me?

16. How the analysis of these
results could help me
improve the way I nurture
my creative thinking and
foster innovative actions in
my term as LCP?

17. How can we use this
information to suspend
useless judgment and
paradigms during
NPC2015?