Monday, July 16, 2012

Creative Thinking

CrEaTiVe Thinking.

Think like a wise fool. The wise fool will reverse our standard assumptions, notices things that other people overlook, can be irreverent, cryptic, absurd, takes the contrary position in most conversations and stimulates thinking. 
Example: "If a man is sitting on a horse facing the rear, WHY do we assume that it is the man who is backwards, and not the horse?".

The Wise Fool 
(from Roger von Oech)

To create, a person must:
  • Have knowledge but forget the knowledge
  • See unexpected connections in things but not have a mental disorder
  • Work hard but spend time doing nothing
  • Create many ideas yet most of them are useless
  • Look at the same thing as everyone else, yet see something different
  • Desire success but learn how to fail
  • Be persistent but not stubborn
  • Listen to experts but know how to disregard them
 
from SayPeople
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from Michael Michalko

Tuesday, July 03, 2012