Antoni Elias Creativity Teacher in BarcelonaTech-UPC

Some tips to become

creative

When we focus on a problem with a view to solving it, unconsciously apply all our experience, all our knowledge on the subject that the problem concerned.

This efficient approach often leads us to typical solutions, hiding other possible ways that probably lead us to more innovative solutions.

Often when we try to understand a problem, our subconscious adds assumptions that are not in the statement of the problem, but help us to understand the problem. This greatly limits the set of possible solutions.

The more you know about something, the more barriers heuristics applied. Is like the subconscious mind works.

Learning and acquisition of heuristic rules are virtually the same thing. Therefore: Experts must control, be aware, about their heuristics barriers

As an example,

Let’s solve a problem!!!!

It would be possible to get a teaspoon remain balanced on its narrow side if we drop it from about 40 cm. ?

Apparently it seems impossible to get the remaining teaspoon balanced on the narrow side if it is not supported by some object !!

However… it is possible !!

HOW ?

Like this, bending the teaspoon

A bent teaspoon remains a teaspoon. In the problem statement nobodies told us that we could not bend the spoon

Who will put these limitations? Our experience, training,… Surely our subconscious mind.

If we want to become creative, we must overcome the “apparent contradictions" that our mind (our knowledge,

our experience, our training ...) poses us when we are trying to solve a problem, or design something.

As Frank Zappa said:

A mind is like a parachute, it doesn’t work if it isn’t open

Open the mind means, among other things, forget preconceptions and prejudices, be disposed to feel sensations in a comprehensive wide way, and also,……

……control our knowledge, our experience and training. In short, "open your mind" is to control our subconscious mind.

Thank you very much for your attention!!!!

Antoni Elias Creativity Teacher in BarcelonaTech-UPC