The document discusses the importance of creative thinking and getting outside of the box to generate new ideas. It notes that people often feel comfortable staying inside their box where everything is familiar. However, creative thinking is necessary, not a luxury, to come up with innovative solutions. The document provides tips for developing divergent thinking, such as being open-minded and resisting the urge for fast/convergent thinking. It encourages taking risks and thinking differently and long about problems to cross boundaries in our minds.
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Creative thinking
1. Creative thinking : How to get
out of the box and generate
ideas
Mohd Wasil
IIT DELHI
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Have you ever been assigned an easy
task which for you is difficult to
perform
9. There is a boundary between
what we know and what we still
have not thought about yet
10. Why are we trapped inside the box or not
able to think in a innovative fashion ?
It has to do with our genetic heritage, the
experiences we got over from our school, college
and the norm to follow whatever has been told to us
11. This makes us comfortable
inside and the outside is
invisible to us
12. How do we get outside the box ?
Do we wait for the apple falling
moment !!
13. We are suspended.
Its like a middle
game in chess where
you have no preset
direction
14. We tend to think convergently
Can we diverge and think
about the things differently
from the way they are known
to us ?
18. We need to resist fast thinking and think long
Develop Long Thinking !!
Its like you were listening to music where u
dont judge the single words but its the
collective thing which gives u a feeling
19. Thought experiment !!
We want to generate new ideas for
organizing ted conferences in a better
fashion
Suggest out of box solutions.