Restless Curiosity

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Restless Curiosity!

• John Simonett
• LABC
• February 2006

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The Human Brain

• A self organising, self patterning system
• A good pattern maker but a poor pattern breaker -
  thus
• Creativity the art of breaking patterns,
  habits and certainties
• Left Brain vs Right Brain
• Left logical, analytical, process driven,
  risk averse
• Right Emotional, artistic,Playful,
  Humorous, Innocent
• Ideal Whole Brain thinking

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Creativity towards a definition

• To bring into being through force of
  imagination Chambers
  English Dictionary
• Imaginative processes with outcomes Sir Ken
  Robinson
• Generating new ideas which are practical, of
  value, and can be implemented to bring about
  an improved product or service
• The creation of something new and useful for
  your business
• Brainstorming Greenhousing River Jumping
  Lateral Thinking

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Are we all creative?

• YES!.
• Until.
• We get to work.!!

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Communication Exercise

• Pair up!

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Communication Exercise

• Swap roles

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Communication Exercise

• Compare notes

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FINISHED FILES ARE THE RESULT OF MANY YEARS OF
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE
OF MANY YEARS
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• The species most likely to survive are not in
  fact the fittest, the strongest or the most
  powerful. It is the species most prepared to
  change as their environment changes
  Charles Darwin, Origin of
  Species
  

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A brief History of ThoughtAncient, Mediaeval
and Modern Periods

• Early Philosophers 400 BC- Plato, Socrates,
  Aristotle the Development of Logic and Vertical
  Thinking
• The Dark Ages and the Renaissance Copernicus to
  Galileo
• The Industrial Revolution
• The Information Revolution and the Knowledge
  Economy
• The Future

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Lateral ThinkingEdward de Bono (1970) Paul
Sloane (2003)

• Vertical Logical Thinking
• Follows most likely path
• Always correct
• Sequential
• Analytical
• Selective

• Lateral Thinking
• Follows least likely paths
• Frequently incorrect
• Non sequential
• Provocative
• Generative

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Lateral ThinkingThe 4 Golden Rules

• Check your assumptions!
  
• Especially the older/more
  experienced/senior/intelligent you are!
• Ask Searching questions
• To gain better insight
• Deliberately adopt a different point of view
• Change your perspective What If?
• Borrow with Pride Adopt, Adapt, Improve!

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River Jumping

• Re-expression
• Revolution
• Reviewing
• Related Worlds

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De Bonos 6 Thinking Hats

• Most group thinking and discussion is
  adversarial wearing a metaphorical hat
  encourages parallel thinking.
• The WHITE Hat Information gathering
• The RED Hat Emotional response
• The YELLOW Hat Optimism
• The BLACK Hat Pessimism
• The GREEN Hat Growth and Possibility
• The BLUE Hat Overview and Process
  control
• Avoids personal/departmental agendas and
  inhibitions from criticizing bosss ideas!

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Gorilla Spotting!(Professor Richard Wiseman
2004)

• We all have Blind Spots sometimes we miss the
  obvious!
• Creativity is not always about wild and
  whacky ideas
• Be mindful of a problem dont focus or forget
  it be aware and open to opportunities.. chance
  favours the open mind
• A Primed Brain Time Freedom Eureka
  moments
• The seeds of great discovery are constantly
  floating around us, but they only take root in
  minds well prepared to receive them
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  Joseph Henry

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The FISH Philosophy!

• Choose your attitude!
• Play!
• Be Present!
• Make their day!

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Restless Curiosity!

• John Simonett
• LABC
• February 2006