creativity and humour

Using Humour To Develop Creativity

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Character Survey:

Which symbol does not fit with the others?

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INTELLIGENT – Strong decision makers

LATERAL THINKERS – Prepared to look at all sides

CREATIVE – Strong imagination, Leaders

Preoccupied with SEX and BOOZE

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Oscar Wilde“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.”― Oscar Wilde,

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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

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Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.

-Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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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

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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.

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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

-Oscar Wilde.

HUMOUR – A DEFINITION

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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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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

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Ever notice how 'What the hell' is always the right answer?” ― Marilyn Monroe.

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“Humor is reason gone mad.” ― Groucho Marx.

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“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

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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

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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Carol Burnett

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Emotional chaos remembered in tranquilityJames Thurber –

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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

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This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought. -Lin Yutang

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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

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FEAR OF MAKING A MISTAKE

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fear of making a mistake INABILITY TO TOLERATE

AMBIGUITY

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What do you see?


Can you find a five-point star?

fear of making a mistake inability to tolerate ambiguity JUDGING RATHER THAN

GENERATING IDEAS

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sO TL U I O N S

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.

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REDEFINE THE ROBLEM

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REVERSE DEFINITIONSSometimes it is easier to solve the opposite problem than the original one.


HOW TIRED I FEEL…

I UNDERSTOOD SO MUCH TODAY!

Ashleigh Brilliant

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