TAKE ACTION AND BECOME MORE AND MORE CREATIVE

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TAKE ACTION AND BECOME
MORE AND MORE CREATIVE!
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Four key creative abilities

• Fluency the ability to generate a large volume
  of ideas
• Flexibility the ability to generate ideas in a
  number of categories (how many different types of
  uses did you devise for a certain thing / idea?)
• Originality the ability to generate unique and
  unusall ideas
• Elaboration the ability to add details or to
  expand on the item itself

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Rekindling your creative power

• Connect with people
• Design the enriching enviroment
• Get out of your box
• Be sparked by Play and Humor
• Expand your mind through reading
• Take up the arts
• Plug into technology
• PowerThink your challanges
• Release your alterconscious

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C.O.R.E.

• C uriosity the questioning force
• Necessity may be the mother of invention,
  but curiosity is the mother of discovery
• O peness flexibility and respect for the new
• R isk tolerance the courage to leave your
  comfort zone
• E nergy the fuel to work and the spark of
  passion

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The five stages creative model

• Preparation
• Incubation
• - imagining using imagination and
  fantasy to produce a new idea from an old one
• - encircling starting with a fuzzy
  picture of a new idea, then narrowing the choices
  and options to find the one
• central concept that works
• - pyramiding of funneling joining many
  ideas to form a synthesis at the top or bottom, a
  sleek new idea that
• combines the best elements of all
• - blending borrowing characteristics
  or apsects from twa ideas and merging them to
  form an altogether new one
• - juxtaposing taking one idae and
  pitting it against another from the contrast a
  new idea arises
• Illumination
• Implementation
• Verification

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Please remember

• Stop living on automatic pilot
• Be flexible in how you categorize
  lifes experiences
• See everything from perspectives
  other than your own

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Four P

• Plan
• Persistence
• Patience
• Passion

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The steps to turning your ideas
into creative opportunities

• Step 1 Translating the idea into a goal
• Step 2 Thinking As if.
• Step 3 Selling your ideas
• Step 4 Making your pitch
• Step 5 Handling objectives
• Step 6 Getting commitment
• Step 7 Overcoming discouragement and becoming an
  innovator