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Beginnings are always messy.
~ John Galsworthy​
Creativity is messy sometimes. Doing something that's never been done before takes a lot of experimentation. Sometimes things work out, sometimes they don't. Highly creative people are not bothered by the messiness because they know the messiness leads to great inspiration and discoveries. When faced with challenges, allowing things to get a little messy can result in insightful, inspired solutions.
People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends​, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line.
~ Dean Kamen​
Victor Landa
Victor was born in San Antonio and raised on the border in both Laredo, Texas and Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. In 1981,Victor landed a job as a news photographer for a CBS affiliate in Laredo, Texas. He has been a journalist ever since. During his 30-year, Victor has worked as a photographer, editor, reporter, producer, assignments editor, columnist, teacher, consultant, news anchor, and news director. In the early 1980's Victor crossed over into Spanish Television with KWEX-TV in San Antonio. He went on to be News Director at KVDA-TV. For 20 years he was a contributing columnist for the Express-News. He is owner Palabrero Communications and Alameda Media and Communications. He has been married for 32 years to Becky Landa and they have two children.
Being crazy isn't enough.​
~ Dr. Seuss​
When brainstorming, it's common advice to go for wild and crazy ideas. People are often reluctant to share crazy ideas because they're, well, crazy. But it is often in the crazy ideas that the most creative, and even practical solutions lie.
Dreams are most often profound when they seem the most crazy.​
~ Sigmund Freud​
Design Thinking runs throughout all levels of strategic thinking it comes to the surface clearly with the creation of strategic options.
Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative​, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain and negativity.
~ Yoko Ono​
There are a lot of myths about creativity floating around out there. One of them is what I call "The Myth of the Melancholy". While it is true many great creative people throughout history have been very sad, there have also been plenty living on the sunnier side of the street.
Sadness certainly is not a requirement for creativity. In fact, being creative often reduces sadness because it helps you see the good alongside the bad. The focus on resolving a problem is much more hopeful than dwelling in the negative parts of it. Those melancholy creative geniuses we so highly admire were most likely using their creativity as a way to get through the pain.
Curiosity is one key trait of creative people and creative thinking. To increase your own creativity, be curious and ask lots of questions.
This image was created in celebration of World Creativity and Innovation Week (April 15-21 every year) www.WCIW.org
Visuals to help flesh out the house and castle metaphors. You just have to ask the right questions: What are we afraid of in the basement? Who is our knight in shining armor?
A testament that poverty is not an excuse to creative thinking-- Street kids doing their very own dragon dance performance.
Design Thinking, through the acknowledgment of 'the map in not the territory', works to insure that only the most valuable generalizations are made from specific experiences, that only the most valuable differences are made in our representations, and that only the most valuable selections of the world are included.
Playfulness is essential to creativity and creative thinking. Great ideas rarely come to those who scowl!
This image was originally created in celebration of World Creativity and Innovation Week (April 15-21 every year). www.WCIW.org
From ideation to evaluation to solution. When the thinking and decision process is made visual, even those not present for the discussion understand how decisions were made.
We made a trip to Barnes and Noble... my favorite bookstore.. Hope it survives a bit longer (as Borders we found out is closing....)......
This was a super-cool book I found to help one with improving creative thinking and being innovative. I am still looking through it. It's jam packed full of interesting ideas. I picked this up in hopes I will use some of these tips/strategies/exercises with students in India when I do some college interaction sessions.
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I have already done some sessions on motivation and goal setting - see a video of my experience at Jai Bharath College. In the video, I talk about the session I did and some cross-cultural observations. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWumLxnhDlk
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Design Thinking is a framework within which various techniques are uses including the essential skill of Edward de Bono's lateral thinking techniques.
This is a synthesis image of some feedback I was given on my visual thinking work a while ago. The same format can be used for any number of topics or situations.
Colorful imagery comes from and leads to creative thinking. Believe it or not, even black and white images can be "colorful" if they are the other things on the list.
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