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PROLOGUE … TO CREATIVE THINKINGPROLOGUE … TO CREATIVE THINKING

Only God who creates …

Man rearranges.__ Thomas Aquinas

So,NEWNESS … Is not really new …

But rather … NEW RELATIONSHIPS among old elements,

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Violet

Indigo

Blue

Green

Yellow

Orange

Red

CreativeThinker

Inventor

Innovator

Entrepreneur

Intrapreneur

Champion

Sponsor


Produces new idea

Produces new potentially Marketable idea...

Introduces a new product to the market

Receives ideas and turns them into business realities, usually using OPB & OPM

Acts as an entrepreneur throughout an existing organization

Picks an idea, sees it developed, & properly implemented

Supports an idea, provides resources, & overcomes obstacles as it is taken to realization


Creativity … For EveryoneCreativity … For Everyone

•Creativity was once confined to the pioneers of arts and literature …

•De Bono's LATERAL THINKING … as opposed to VERTICAL THINKING … provides a mind tool (Software) for everyone to be creative

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What Do We Know About Our Brains … ?What Do We Know About Our Brains … ?

•Ten years ago we did not know many facts about our brains … above all we did not know that its powers are nearly developed by age ONE … !

•So, is it too late … ? !

•Absolutely not .. But it will need MORE TIME … and a lot of

COMMITMENT, PERSEVERANCE, & DISCIPLINECOMMITMENT, PERSEVERANCE, & DISCIPLINE

The simple advice is … USE IT OR LOSE ITThe simple advice is … USE IT OR LOSE IT

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The HARDWARE … the ANATOMY

•The STORAGE : Gigantic

•The OPERATION : 90% Unused

The BRAIN … a synopsis

•Not ONE … But TWO brains :left & Right brains

•Opposite, but complementary, in functions

•Compared to a computer … the brain software … is engraved as a hardware.. So, learning changes the physical shape of the brain … !!

The SOFTWARE … the PHYSIOLOGY

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The META – PROCESS of the mind =

The Functioning of the Mind In Problem - Solving

ANALYZING

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Choose the LANGUAGE that suits your meta –processes : Verbal, Spatial, Numerate, Color, Musical, Mechanical, Organic, or People…

The DEPTH MIND CONTINUUM = The three meta – processes are continuously spinning downward from the conscious mind to the unconscious mind … until suddenly … the spark of INNOVATION erupts onto the conscious mind from the deep depth of mind …

The PARADOX of creative thinking : ideas come from within us, it is a solitary activity … But, they are stimulated by information inputs from others … dead or alive …!!

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In Life, it means : To enjoy a happy balanced life : mentally, physically, Socially, and Spiritually …

What Is Mental Fitness … ?

In neuroscience, it means = Increasing organized networking among neurons in the brain … due to :

WILLFUL,

PURPOSFUL , and

ACTIVE Learning

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The proactive balance among the interaction of :

* The serious ANALYTICAL THINKING

* The empathic SOCIAL COMMUNICATION

* The wildness of CREATIVE THINKING

What Is Total Mental Fitness ( TMF)

It is the organized, andFull use of your

Brains in a willfulWay …

Left brain Right brainAnalytical

skills

social

skills

Creative

skills Right brain

TMF

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Thinking … IS A DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM

data

inputs

Sensory

organs

Recalling

Perceiving

Deducing

Comparing

Combining

Evaluating

….. etc.

Thinking Process

Memory

(knowledge database)

outputs

-Ideas

-Solutions

-decisions

Expression & Movement

Organs

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PROLOGUE … TO CREATIVE THINKINGPROLOGUE … TO CREATIVE THINKINGSolving the creative thinking paradox … 360o knowledge

and lateral thinking lead to 360o thinking …

360o

Thinking

Knowledge field

360o in producing

360o Lateral thinking

360o perception

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ideas

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What is the effect of 360o knowledge on the skills requirements of mental fitness …

Analytical thinkingSources of knowledge

•Mathematics

•Statistics

•Computers

•Systems

•Economics

•Life Sciences

•Physical

•Sciences

Creative ThinkingSources of knowledge•Fine arts

•Music

•Literature

•Mental hobbies

•Manual hobbies

•Meditation

Social Empathic Feelings

Sources of knowledge•Psychology

•Sociology

•Social anthropology

Left Brain

Right Brain

Right Brain

Applied

ideas

Balanced

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Feasible Ideas

Wild

Ideas

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So, 360o Thinking Means :So, 360o Thinking Means :

Enlarging your Knowledge database, i.e.,

Lateral Knowledge, i.e.,

to know the most important ideas in every knowledge field

And then use :

Lateral Thinking

To play freely with these ideas through multiple combinations

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INTRODUCING … THE SEVEN & A HAFT HABITSINTRODUCING … THE SEVEN & A HAFT HABITS

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HABIT ONE : JUMP OUT OF THE BOX …HABIT ONE : JUMP OUT OF THE BOX …

Discovery consists of : Seeing what everyone has seen, but thinking what nobody has thought …

__Anonymous

Challenging

Assumptions …

Don’t take for granted :

•Unconscious assumptions …

•Established ideas …

•Fixed professional solutions ..

But do intentionally :

•Deliberate and temporary assumptions

•Use questions for assumptive thinking … 5W’s & 1 H

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Managing Assumptions …

•Sense and perceive the unconscious constraints …

•Put your own deliberate assumptions …

•Test and challenge ALL assumptions

•Deploy those assumptions that you feel are promising

Widening your Span of

Relevance Think 360o : lateral thinking &

Lateral Knowledge

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Defining The Problem Correctly

A correct problem definition is … a solution in disguise …

Thinking What Is Seemingly Irrelevant

Go far and beyond...

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HABIT TWO : INVITE CHANCE INTRUSIONS …HABIT TWO : INVITE CHANCE INTRUSIONS …

Chance favors only the prepared mind …

__Louis Pasteur

Chance .. The Inventor’s luck

•Many inventions were the result of unexpected Chance events …

•Saccharine … the vulcanization of rubber … etc.

Luck Management … The Practice of

Serendipity

•Serendipity : Making lucky and unexpected find by accident …

•It goes beyond reacting to chance events … to having a proacting attitude to these chance events .

•Luck management means : to have a prepared mind by

- Being Purposeful : seeking answers or solutions

- being sensitive : using all your senses

- being perceptive : identifying clues of relevance

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Luck is opportunity …. meeting preparation

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HABIT THREE : LISTEN TO THE MOANING OF YOUR DEPTH MIND …

HABIT THREE : LISTEN TO THE MOANING OF YOUR DEPTH MIND …

While the fisher sleeps, the net takes the fish … __ Ancient Greek Proverb

Your depth mind makes

kaleidoscopic

range of combinations

of the three meta - processes

Your depth mind makes

kaleidoscopic

range of combinations

of the three meta - processes

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GNIZISEHTNYSTIC

GNIZYLANAZING

Eureka

The unconscious Mind (womb of thinking)

The Conscious

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•Collect, sort, & analyze information…•Explore possible solutions

•Collect, sort, & analyze information…•Explore possible solutions

The creative process linking

The conscious and unconscious minds …

PreparationPreparation

Conscious Mind

Conscious Mind

Analyze

Criticize Synthesize

•Unconscious concurrent mental meta – processes, using existing memory fragments, plus new information inputs, they may seemingly be irrelevant …

•Unconscious concurrent mental meta – processes, using existing memory fragments, plus new information inputs, they may seemingly be irrelevant …

IncubationIncubation

Unconscious Mind

Unconscious Mind

AnalyzeSynthesizeCriticize

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•Gradual or sudden emergence of quasi – complete ideas or fragmented ones …•This happens when least expected ...

•Gradual or sudden emergence of quasi – complete ideas or fragmented ones …•This happens when least expected ...

The creative process linking

The conscious and unconscious minds …

IlluminationUnconscious

MindAnalyze


•Mainly conscious valuing faculties come into play …•Action plans are formulated …

•Mainly conscious valuing faculties come into play …•Action plans are formulated …

VerificationVerification

Conscious mind

Conscious mind

Idea Emergence

ConsciousMind

Analyze


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Barriers to Effective Use of Your Depth Mind

Lack of aStarting

point

1•If a problem or opportunity seems too large ..break it down …start anywhere.. You Can change it later

•Inspiration comes after you have started … not before

Lack ofPerspective

2•Perhaps you are too involved with the problem

•Leave it for a week … ask others for new angles …

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Barriers to Effective use of your Depth Mind

Lack of Motivation

3•Remember that creative thinking requires perseverance to travel uncharted lands …

•If you are easily put off question your sense of purpose ... and invigorate it …

Lack ofConsultation

4•Consult others within a constructive communication mode …

•Remember the synergy effect of team spirit …

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Sleep on Problems &

solutions

•Relaxed in bed .. In the dark .. before you go to sleep .. THINK calmly about your issue ...

•Dreams have messages from the hidden parts of our brains for us … coded in an alien language of images ..

•Recall your dream .. You might have the answers you are seeking

Record popping idea

Fragmentspromptly

•Ideas seldom emerge in a complete form especially the great ones …

•They start with short flashing images of disguised fragments …

•Record these flashing fragments … promptly as they come in … in real time ... Use a pencil, eraser, & a pad … or simply a voice recorder ... And never postpone or rely on your memory for later retrieval ... You will lose them for certain … and perhaps forever

Feed your depth mind

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HABIT FOUR : POSTONE JUDGEMENT …HABIT FOUR : POSTONE JUDGEMENT …

Criticism often takes from the tree … caterpillars and blossoms altogether …

___ Jean-Paul Sartre

Criticism often takes from the tree … caterpillars and blossoms altogether …

___ Jean-Paul Sartre

Postpone Evaluation ... To Give Your New Idea A Breathe

•Because, as your excitement continues, new possibilities, … and even new ideas, ... may be revealed

Watch Out For Quick Fire Critics …

•Creative thinking is synergized by social interaction .

•But many social environments include people who are idea killers …

•They have the following traits : narrow focus, preconceived ideas, Fixed attitudes, Egocentric, arrogant, … etc.

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HABIT FOUR : POSTONE JUDGEMENT …HABIT FOUR : POSTONE JUDGEMENT …

Select Constructive Critics

•Who do not use Colliding Communication…

•but rather : - Parallel Communication ( De Bono’s six thinking hats ) - Constructive communication ( Lateral thinking & Lateral knowledge )

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HABIT FIVE : USE ANALOGIES EXTENSIVELYHABIT FIVE : USE ANALOGIES EXTENSIVELY

Metaphors &

Analogies

•Are integral to our language …

•We use them to stress meaning through imaging and imagination

•But creative thinkers have the habit of using them on purpose …

•So, creative thinking is : Thinking analogically rather than thinking logically

Don’t be afraid of taking a big step – you cannot cross a chasm in two steps …

__ David Lloyd - George

Don’t be afraid of taking a big step – you cannot cross a chasm in two steps …

__ David Lloyd - George

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HABIT FIVE : USE ANALOGIES EXTENSIVELYHABIT FIVE : USE ANALOGIES EXTENSIVELY

Analogies ... As thinking

tools

•Analogy is the core of a metaphor …

•Used for Inference that if two things agree in some respects … they will probably agree in others … ( the working hypothesis)

• Also used for Understanding something in terms of another through the resemblance in some particulars between things otherwise unlike ... ( giving a definition )

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Analogies At Work In Creative And Innovative ThinkingAnalogies At Work In Creative And Innovative Thinking

Examples of inventions based on this statement are every where :

God created nature … we just borrow from it

* The Sonar & radar bats

* Door of a cargo aircraft Clam shell

* Opening a cigarette pack Skinning a pea

Examples of Management concepts

* The Hierarchical organization structure Baboon colony

* The Job description Division of labor in ants & bees

* The Networks Spider’s web

Ideas are already existing around you ... We do not have to create them ... Only find them ... Through ANALOGIES…TOTALITY

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To Understand something strange …we make an analogy with something familiar to us

Two Powerful Analogical Tools …

Make the strange familiar … to understand ...

1

To create new ideas ... we make the familiar strange … to discover what god hid from us by putting it near to us …

Make the familiar strange …

to create new ideas …

2

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HABIT SIX : WELCOME AMBIGUITY …

HABIT SIX : WELCOME AMBIGUITY …

I think and think, for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false . The hundredth time I am right …

__ Albert Einstein

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The common funnel model of decision - makingThe common funnel model of decision - making

Possibilities

21 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

2 3 8

2 8

…..Feasible options

…………………Situation after

eliminating 5 options

…………………Quickly reducing the problem into an either/ or decision

……………Decision

……………Action /implementation

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•Anxiety prevails before reaching a solution… many solution ideas are bouncing • Courage …Is the best weapon against anxiety •It is an intellectual courage … be cans itmakes it possible to live in the negative states of anxiety before reaching the positive state of “Eureka” …

Strategies To Avoid The Either / Or Trap …

Courage

1

Perseverance

2 Perseverance … provides you with the energy to endure the negative states in pursuit for “ THE” solution …

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•It is your conscious homework … of data and information collection, analysis, & synthesis …

Strategies To Avoid The Either / Or Trap …

preparation 3

Delegation 4 •When you start feeling trapped in the

negative states of anxiety due to ambiguity…

•Delegate the whole bundle to your depth mind … and clean your conscious mind

Recreation5 •Live your normal life ... walk, eat, drink … etc.

•But be alert to flashes from your depth mind …

•You may suddenly have an inspiration of “ THE” solution …

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Discipline yourself …don’t wait for

Inspiration to knock on your door …!

Discipline yourself …don’t wait for

Inspiration to knock on your door …!

•The comings and goings of inspiration are unpredictable …

•But the long and successful experience of many creative thinkers says otherwise

•Meditate on the following quotations :

If one has to wait for what people call “ Inspiration,” one would never write a word.

__ Graham Greene, author

I sit down, usually without an idea in my head, and stare at the blank paper, once I get going it just goes.

__ Leslie Thomas, thriller writer

One percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration

__ Thomas Edison, inventor

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Disciplined himself to sit at his desk to write for fixed hours in the afternoon after returning home from his dull bureaucratic government job … He did that all his life as a writer … whetheror not he found something to write … !

Disciplined himself to sit at his desk to write for fixed hours in the afternoon after returning home from his dull bureaucratic government job … He did that all his life as a writer … whetheror not he found something to write … !

The Egyptian Nobel prize laureate in literatureThe Egyptian Nobel prize laureate in literature

Nagib MahfouzNagib Mahfouz

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HABIT SEVEN : STORE YOUR IDEAS …HABIT SEVEN : STORE YOUR IDEAS …

Homo sapiens are continuous learning machines from the womb to the tomb … at least this is what they know till now …

__ Hussein Sharara, a homo sapien

•Habit 1 through 6 were concerned with creative thinking as a process … that is … Lateral thinking

• But any process needs inputs for thinking, these inputs are the accumulated Knowledge stored in the brain …

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KNOWLEDGEKNOWLEDGE

PROFESSIONAL

KNOWLEDGE

•Specialized ...

•Operational…

•Detailed

•Suited for ANALITYCAL Thinking

VERTICAL KNOWLEDGE

EDUCATED

KNOWLEDGE

•Broad…

•Relational

•Conceptual

•Suited for

CREATIVE Thinking

LATERALKNOWLEDGE

The Unity ofKnowledge

The Unity ofKnowledge

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The 7 sub–habits of the 7th habit The 7 sub–habits of the 7th habit

Curiosity7.1 •The eager desire to see, learn, & know…

•To know important things about everything …

•It is the start of self–learning …

•The eager desire to see, learn, & know…

•To know important things about everything …

•It is the start of self–learning …

Observation7.2

•The ability to give careful, analytical, and honest attention to what is and what happens around us ...

•It uses all senses…

•Observations should be subjected to the analytical, synthetic, and critical meta–processes of your mind in the whole continuum of the depth mind …

•The ability to give careful, analytical, and honest attention to what is and what happens around us ...

•It uses all senses…

•Observations should be subjected to the analytical, synthetic, and critical meta–processes of your mind in the whole continuum of the depth mind …

Listening7.3 •You should listen to both ideas and feelings …

to what is and what is not being said … !

•An effective listener should firstly have a desire to listen, and then refrain from analyzing or criticizing …

•You should listen to both ideas and feelings … to what is and what is not being said … !

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Reading7.4 •Read in every field ... ( lateral knowledge )

•While reading … analyze and synthesize

•Do not read as a speed reader ... but rather as speed understander

•While reading … imagine and visualize

•Read in every field ... ( lateral knowledge )

•While reading … analyze and synthesize

•Do not read as a speed reader ... but rather as speed understander

•While reading … imagine and visualize

Traveling7.5

•Traveling … is both exposure to other cultures and practicing other habits for a period of time …

•When you return home … the familiar will look strange, your own homeland will be perceived from another angle …

•Traveling … is both exposure to other cultures and practicing other habits for a period of time …

•When you return home … the familiar will look strange, your own homeland will be perceived from another angle …

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Playing7.6 •Play games of different skill requirements …

•Games of mental skills … verbal, non–verbal and mathematical logic, … perception, … luck & risk, … creativity, … memory…

•Games of physical skills … competitive & cooperative …

•Practice activities requiring social skills, e.g., camping …

•Play games of different skill requirements …

•Games of mental skills … verbal, non–verbal and mathematical logic, … perception, … luck & risk, … creativity, … memory…

•Games of physical skills … competitive & cooperative …

•Practice activities requiring social skills, e.g., camping …

Recording7.7

•Record ideas, remarks, & notes in a notebook…

•Occasionally, meditate on what have written …

•Record ideas, remarks, & notes in a notebook…

•Occasionally, meditate on what have written …

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