This document provides an overview of a course on creativity and problem solving in business and personal life. It outlines topics that will be covered, including defining creativity, implementing creativity in business, managing creative employees, and practicing creative thinking. Students will learn how to block, strike, disarm, and disable non-creative thought and action. The document directs students to an online forum for discussion and collaboration. It also provides an exercise where students are asked to list uses for a cardboard toilet paper tube and shares a sample list of uses. Finally, it discusses characteristics of creative people, noting they often have wide-ranging interests and mental quickness.

1. Creative Juijitsu
Creativity and
Problem Solving
in business and your
personal life
Copyright, 2013, T. Pitre, Sequim, WA

2. What is mediocre design
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3. A Solution
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4. What is mediocre design
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5. Solutions
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6. What you will learn* and know*
upon completion
• Definitions
• Implementation of creativity in your
business
• Benefits to creative thought and practice
• Managing creative employees
• You will practice creative jujitsu to block,
strike, disarm and disable non-creative
thought and action.
* What is YOUR definition of learn Vs. know?
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7. Forum; on line
Visit our discussion forum: < here > Help for
the use of the forum is found
at: http://help.proboards.com/
Share findings and collaborate with others.
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8. Exercise
In a lecture I delivered, entitled Keep
Grandma in The Crib, I asked that the
students come up with a written list of
possible uses for an ordinary, cardboard,
toilet-paper tube.
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9. Exercise
Illustration for “Put Grandma In The Crib” by Dale Faulstich,
Sequim, WA
A list of uses for tissue roll follows on the next
slide, but we will give you FIVE minutes to
make a list of your own
GO
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10. Exercise
1 PEN HOLDER FOR ARTHRITICS 2 NAPKIN HOLDER 3 SCARF STORAGE
TUBE 4 FUNNEL 5 MEGAPHONE 6 GOLF BALL T 7 MEASURING DEVICE 8
ROLLING PIN 9 TOY TELESCOPE 10 HOT DOG STORAGE 11 ICE CUBE
FORM 12 MODEL ROCKET SHIP 13 ROLL FOR POSTAGE STAMPS 14 SEND
MESSAGES DOWN AN INCLINE 15 KINDLING 16 RAIN GAUGE 17 WHEEL
FOR STEAMROLLER 18 SEXUAL AID 19 TOY - CATCH SMALL BALL INSIDE
20 FALSE NOSE 21 SEE IF YOUR WATCH GLOWS IN THE DARK 22 RELAY
RACE BATON 23 HAT FOR LINCOLN DOLL 24 A DOOR STOP 25 CUT OPEN
AND USE FOR WRITING MESSAGES 26 PROTECTIVE HANDLE FOR HANDS
TO CARRY SOMETHING HOT 27 HOLD OPEN A WINDOW 28 A BUSINESS
CARD FOR TOILET PAPER SALESPERSON 29 TO HOLD COOKIE DOUGH 30
TO DIG IN SAND 31 FORM FOR SAND CASTLE MAKER 32 MONEY HOLDER
33 TEMPLATE TO DRAW CIRCLES 34 TEMPLATE TO DRAW RECTANGLE 35
TO BUILD TUNNELS - USE AS FORM 36 PENCIL HOLDER 37 CHICKEN
DRUMSTICK HOLDER TO KEEP HANDS CLEAN 38 A HAMSTER DORMITORY
39 TOY CANNON 40 ONE PIPE OF A PANPIPE 41 SPLINT FOR DOG LEG 42
CAN BE USED TO FUNNEL A SMALL LIGHT FOR CLOSE WORK 43 LEG FOR
PLAY CHAIR
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11. Characteristics of a Creative
Person
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What is a creative person? Some think it is a person that ignores
conventional wisdom and does not build on preexisting knowledge. Others
believe that the creative person has a superior memory and the ability to
synthesize information or the ability to relate ideas.
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Generally, creative people demonstrate mental quickness and have a wide
range of interests -- but often do not have superior academic scores.
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A creative person may be able to "give many unusual uses for a brick or a
cardboard box, but fail to perform originally in real-life situations." Any tests of
creativity must be tied to reality so it will be known that a high score identifies
a "creative" person.
Source: [Seventh Mental Measurements Yearbook, Pg. 448]
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12. Characteristics of a Creative
Person, 2
• Thinking Skills: Critical thinking involves logical thinking
and reasoning including skills such as comparison,
classification, sequencing, cause/effect, patterning,
analogies, deductive and inductive reasoning, forecasting,
planning, hypothesizing, and critiquing.
• Creative thinking involves creating something new or
original. It involves the skills of flexibility, originality,
fluency, elaboration, brainstorming, modification, imagery,
associative thinking, attribute listing, metaphorical
thinking, forced relationships.
• The aim of creative thinking is to stimulate curiosity and
promote divergence.
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