As we proceed in our journey of Self discovery with Anil
Sir’s class, today I get a chance to understand how creativity and innovation helps
in solving the toughest problems of life. Though the irony is, it is very
difficult to be creative and innovative after an age of 15. As creativity and
innovation are highly influenced by the education and upbringing we had, the
nature and nurture both decides the mental
capabilities and learning
ability. In today’s class we learn various ways to increase our creativity. A simple five step process is includes
1.
Ideation fluency
2.
Originality of thinking
3.
Association fluency
4.
making the familiar strange by using Analysis
5.
After you analyze make the strange familiar.
We also learn the art of Synectics where we try to
resolve problems by associating them with completely irrelevant elements and
then find out similarities in solutions.
Today’s class also taught me how beliefs influence
our judgments. The Ladder of Influence is the best example to understand this.
It says that, It is our basic habit to take our inferences and judgment as if
they were statements of truth. The ladder moves as
“Our
beliefs are the truth”
“The
truth is obvious”
“Our
truth is based on real data”
“The data we select are real data”
“We have all the data we need”
And this way we start ignoring a lot of information and
start living in our world of views and beliefs. Today I learn how keeping an open view to others
opinion and views provides a deeper understanding of the situation.
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