A visual summary on Creative Thinking - How to get out of the box and generate ideas?

1. Creative Thinking – How to get outside the box and generate Ideas

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEusrD8g-dM

3. Some tasks may be easy for some and hard for others

4. Singing is not
everybody’s Cup of Tea.
Boss asking for an
innovative idea is difficult.

5. 4 Essentials for thinking Out-of-The-Box
1. Practice
2. Know how to get out of the box
3. Know where to go
4. Know how to get back inside

6. BECAUSE

7. Common shared
information
=
+

8. What’s in the box ?
1. Genetic Heritage
2. External Environment
3. Direct & Indirect Experience

10. Divergent Thinking first and then a conscious
shift to Convergent Thinking

11. We need to value Long Thinking as soon as we
want to go back inside the box.

12. When you think creatively, there is no single
correct answer. There are many possibilities.

13. Don’t kill NEW IDEAS. Serendipity happens all the time.

14. Allow the existence of divergent thinking and challenge
yourself in environments where mistakes are allowed.

15. RECAP
 Some tasks may be easy for some
and difficult for others.
 4 Essentials -Practice, how to get
out of the box, where to go, how to
get back inside
 Why – Safe inside the box
 Divergent Thinking first
 Value Long Thinking
 No single correct answer..
 Don’t kill NEW IDEAS.
 Allow the existence of divergent
thinking

18. These slides were
created by Rahul
Gupta, IIM Lucknow,
as part of a MBA
course "Personal
Branding"
(www.MBASkills.IN)
taught by Prof.
Sameer Mathur.