There is a very famous film of Picasso painting live. About halfway through creating an effortless masterpiece he says “ Ca va tres mal” (it’s going very badly). Even someone like Picasso struggled to get a painting to go where he wanted it to go. It’s his self-belief, confidence and self-trust that allows him to work through the “bad” stage and experience that tells him that he can make it right. I’m certainly not in that league, but that helped me to understand that I should push through (although sometime you can try too hard and take a sketch too far) and trust my instinct.
Creativity is just as important in education as literacy, Robinson argues, and this is undoubtedly true now as we begin to come out of the COVID pandemic. Moreover, creativity and innovation will be the fuel of future economies.
I have often wondered how it is that we can focus on one thing rather than another, why we can sometimes focus so clearly that we exclude all other distractions. Like internet algorithms, It turns out that we have a system in our brains that does just that. The Reticular Activation System.
Innovation and creative minds are the natural state for humans, we’ve used it to change and adapt throughout our evolution, and as a result, we have our place in the world.
Leaders mobilize people not just by their words and their passion, but by the concepts that drive their thinking. That thinking is delivered by the strength of their metaphors.
Metaphor allows us to layer meaning and add fresh insights. Metaphor embraces ambiguity and isn’t subject to fact or truth and is one of the key tools of our imaginations.
The SCAMPER technique. Whenever you want to create a new idea, product, service process, breakthrough, or whatever you need, Thinkpak will help you take your subject and change it into something else.
How Emotions guide Decision-Making. There is a clear connection between emotion and decision-making. Creative thinking is just another way of making decisions.