Here are the key steps I would apply from this quote to my own situation: 1. Recognize that staying the same and not growing or changing is like remaining an egg - it will only lead to rotting or decay over time. Constant growth and evolution is needed. 2. Understand that major changes or transformations, like an egg turning into a bird, will be difficult but are necessary for progress. Staying comfortable in one's current form provides short-term ease but limits long-term potential. 3. Have the courage to step out of one's shell even if it means facing uncertainty or discomfort. Hatched eggs become birds and can fly; remaining eggs are limited in what they can experience and accomplish.

1. Basics
• All are equal
• Ask questions
• If you already know, then facilitate
• Respect others’ views
• Warning – “Attending mobile during
training is injurious to learning”
• Participate

2. Event Objectives
• Creativity & Innovation
• Initiative
• Growth orientation

3. Creativity & Innovation
• Understanding creativity
• Use of creativity / relation with problem
solving
• Creativity / innovation / lateral thinking and
strategic perspective
• Benefits
• Application

4. Story
• Tenaliram

5. The Water Problem
• You are at the water spring and you have two
jugs, one of 5 liters and another of 3 liters
capacity
• You have to give me exact four liters of water in
one go.
• You can fill or empty the jugs as many times as
you want….but beware, you have to have
minimum wastage.
• Go….start filling the jugs and get me what I
want……..

6. The Water Solution…
5 Liter jug 3 Liter jug
5 0
2 3
2 0
0 2
5 2
4 3

7. Creativity
What it is?

8. • An art of discovering new ideas and new styles
of doing things….do u remember the old and
famous crow story???
• It has a fairly good relationship with our problem
solving capacity…..heard of Dronacharya?
• One of the key is our ability to think laterally
Creativity

9. Lateral Thinking

10. LE
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GIVE
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11. He’s / Himself D D D DW E S T
GROUND
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FEET
FEET
FEET
FEET
FEET
R E A D I N G

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13. How does it help in activities?
• It gives continuous stimulation to brain.
• It provides energy for further actions.

14. Let’s see this
• There are two separate rooms having no
connections with each other.
• In one room there are three different coloured
bulbs fitted on wall at 5 feet height from the floor.
• In other room there are three switches fitted on
three different walls connected to the respective
bulbs of the other room.
• You are allowed to enter into the rooms only
once without any instrument.

15. Cont…..
• You cannot see the bulbs in any way
when you switch on the bulbs and
similarly you cannot see the switches
when you are in the room where bulbs
are there.
• Question : how can you identify the
switches with correct bulb?

16. The Matchstick Problem
• How would you
arrange six
matches to form
four equilateral
triangles, without
any overlap?

17. The Candle-Mounting
Problem
• Using these
materials, how
would you mount
the candle on a
bulletin board?

18. The Matchstick Problem
• Solution to the
matchstick
problem

19. The Candle-Mounting
Problem
• Solving this
problem
requires
recognizing that
a box need not
always serve
as a container

20. LATERAL THINKING
PUZZLES

21. A man lives on the twelfth floor of an
apartment building. Every morning he takes
the elevator down to the lobby and leaves the
building. In the evening, he gets into the
elevator, and, if there is someone else in the
elevator -- or if it was raining that day -- he
goes back to his floor directly. Otherwise, he
goes to the tenth floor and walks up two
flights of stairs to his apartment.

22. ANSWER
The man is a dwarf. He can't reach the
upper elevator buttons, but he can ask
people to push them for him. He can
also push them with his umbrella.

23. A man drives down the highway at 55 miles
per hour. He passes three cars going 60 miles
per hour, then gets pulled over by a police
officer and is given a ticket.

24. ANSWER
The man was driving the wrong way on a
one way street.

25. A man dies of thirst in his own home.

26. ANSWER
His home is a houseboat, and he has run
out of water while on an extended cruise.

27. There's a flash of light, and a man dies.

28. ANSWER
The man is struck by lightning.

29. A married couple goes to a movie.
During the movie the husband
strangles the wife. He is able to get her
body home without attracting attention

30. ANSWER
The movie is at a drive-in theater.

31. A woman throws something out a
window and dies.

32. ANSWER
The object she throws is a boomerang. It flies out,
loops around, comes back, and hits her in the
head.

33. Two men enter a bar. They are served
identical drinks. One lives; the other
dies.

34. ANSWER
The drinks contain poisoned ice cubes; one man
drinks slowly, giving them time to melt, while the
other drinks quickly and thus doesn't get much
of the poison.

35. An avid birdwatcher sees an unexpected
bird. Soon, they're both dead

36. ANSWER
He is a passenger in an airplane and sees
the bird get sucked into an engine at
20,000 feet. The engine stalls, and the
plane crashes.

37. An old man lived alone.
He wanted to spade
his potato garden, but
it was
very hard work. His
only son, who would
have helped him, was
in prison. The
old man wrote a letter
to his son and
mentioned his
predicament.
The Potato
Story

38. Dear Son:
I am feeling pretty bad, because
it looks like I won't be able to
plant my potato garden this
year. I hate to miss doing the
garden because your mother
always loved planting time. I'm
just getting too old to be
digging up a garden plot. If you
were here, all my troubles
would be over. I know you
would dig the plot for me, if you
weren't in prison.
Love, Dad

39. Shortly, the old man
received this telegram "For
HEAVEN'S SAKE, Dad,
don't dig up the garden!
That's where I buried the
GUNS!"

40. At 4 A.M. the next morning, a
dozen FBI agents and local
police officers showed up and
started digging up the entire
garden without finding any guns.
Confused, the old man wrote
another note to his son
telling him what happened and
asking him what to do next.

41. His son's reply was
"Go ahead and plant
your potatoes, Dad, It's
the best I could do for
you from here."

42. What happens at brain level???

43. Strategic Thinking Tools
Holistic
Intuitive
Integrating
Synthesizing
Interpersonal
Feeling Based
Kinaesthetic
Emotional
Logical
Analytical
Fact based
Quantitative
Organized
Sequential
Planned
Detailed
A D
B C
LeftBrain
RightBrain

44. Thinking Styles
We all have preferred thinking styles
Visualization
Dreaming
Sketching
Visual thinking
Creative dramatics
Interactions
Team Task
Sensory Processing
Intuition
Feeling
Passion
Problem definition
Pure logic
Value Analysis
Transaction Analysis
Factual Analysis
Rational thinking
Operation Analysis
Idea Evaluation
Implementation
Zero defect
A D
B C
LeftBrain
RightBrain

45. Thinking Preferences
Infers
Imagines
Speculates
Takes Risks
Is Impetuous
Breaks Rules
Likes surprises
Is Curious / Plays
Is sensitive to others
Likes to Teach
Touches a lot
Is supportive
Is Expressivea
Is Emotional
Talks a lot
Feels
Analyses
Quantifies
Is Logical
Is Critical
Is Realistic
Likes Numbers
Knows about money
Knows how things work
Takes Preventive Action
Establishes Procedures
Gets things done
Is Reliable
Organises
Is Neat
Timely
Plans
A D
B C
LeftBrain
RightBrain
We have preferred thinking styles

46. Strategy / Action Plan
Effective Ineffective
Execution
Excellent
Poor
Long Term Success
Maybe successful
For a while
Success
Unlikely
Failure
A combination of effective strategies
and excellent execution
A Framework for Strategic
Thinking

47. Questions
• There are eight nuns, one in each cell, as
shown in the next figure. Making a total of
three nuns along each side of the
courtyard. How can they be rearranged so
that there are four nuns along each side?

48. Let us check our problem solving
capacity…….
1 1 1
1 1
1 1 1

49. Solution
1+1 1+1
1+1 1+1

50. The Problem
• Fifteen matches being laid on the table so
as to form five equal squares, required, to
remove three matches so as to leave
three such squares only.

51. Solution

52. “You can analyse the past,
But you must design the future”
- Edward de Bono

53. Welcome to Mars

54. Creativity exercise
• Imagine you are the first person to step on
Mars
• You walk around a corner and there in
front of you is a Martian
• Close your eyes and picture the Martian in
every detail
• In fact draw your Martian

55. Your Martian
• Was your Martian symmetrical?
• Did it have arms, legs?
• Eyes? Ears? A mouth?.

56. Your Martian
• You probably answered yes to most of these
(not too creative really!)
• We often follow patterns our brain has made
before….and not bothered to challenge
• “If you always think what you always
thought, you’ll always get what you
always got!”, Anonymous

57. Another exercise
• On the following slide are a bunch of
words
• Please have a look at them and try to find
the link between them
• Be as creative as possible

58. Thinklaterally,outofthebox,creatively
Soap
Tax
CamelPicture
Farm
Cloud
Saw
Church

59. Random words
• Of course in this case there is NO defined
link
• Your own ideas demonstrate how creative
you can be
• So it is possible to break down the
patterns in your brain

60. Innovation & Creativity
“Creativity is thinking up
new things …
Innovation is doing new
things”
- 3M

61. Creative Thinking
“Creative thinking is not a talent, it is a skill that
can be learnt. It empowers people by adding
strength to their natural abilities which improves
teamwork, productivity and where appropriate
profits.”
- Edward de Bono

62. Another view of Innovation
Idea
Timeliness “Value”

63. “Innovation is the driver of every modern
economy – it is the key to competitiveness,
employment, growth and social well-being”
- Dr Robin Batterham, Australia’s Chief Scientist
August, 2008

64. "Trying is the first step towards
failure."
- Homer Simpson
… alternatively it’s the
first step towards success!
- Steve Brodie

65. Robinhood needs your help..
• Robinhood and his team has robbed a rich
and cruel landlord and started running.
• The helpers of landlord started chasing
Robinhood, but found that their speed is
too slow in comparison to Robinhood’s.
• There is a 20 KM dry grass land to be
crossed to reach the jungle and Robin’s
team has crossed 5 kms by now.

66. Cont….
• Seeing the direction of air, helpers of
Landlord decided to set fire to the grass .
• The speed of fire approaching to
Robinhood is 3 kms in 10 minutes.
• Roninhood’s speed is 2 kms in 10
minutes.
• Question: If you are with Robinhood in this
race, can you help Robinhood from being
burnt?

67. Is It justIfIed ….???
• A person was walking on railway tracks.
Suddenly he heard a whistle of a train chasing
towards him.
• Train was just 3 kms away and was about to
reach to that person in 3 minutes.
• The man started running towards the train on the
railway track and covered 60 meters in one
minute and then suddenly jumped off from the
tracks .
• Question: Why the hell he did so?

68. A professor went for spending some days, in a relaxed
mood in a small town. He decided to have his hair cut.
The town had only two barbers, each with his own
shop. The professor glanced into one shop and saw it
was extremely dirty. The barber needed a shave, his
clothes were not clean, his hair was badly cut. The
other shop was extremely neat & clean. The barber
was freshly shaved and spotlessly dressed, his hair
neatly trimmed. The professor returned to the first
shop for his hair cut.
Why ????????
A thinking Professor ?????

69. How do you apply these steps to your situation?
“It may be hard for an egg
To turn into a bird:
it would be a jolly sight harder
for it to learn to fly,
while remaining as an egg.
We are like eggs at present.
and you cannot go on indefinitely
Being just an ordinary decent egg.
We must be hatched or get rotten.”
--C. S. Lewis