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REFLECTION: MOTHER & FATHER OF INNOVATION

Video Link: Mother and Father of Innovation

Video transcript:
Welcome to this course on creativity, my name is Peter Childs and I work at Imperial College London, as well as running a
few companies. We can all be highly creative and the aim of this course is to explore our innate abilities and to see if we
can enhance these. You have probably heard the well-known phrase, that necessity is the mother of invention. From
many personal experiences, we know that this saying has a lot of validity. If you have a problem, then you need
creative ideas to solve it. I have spent many years running businesses, doing design and engineering, teaching creative
approaches and supervising research on creativity. And there I was reading a magazine with an article with the classic
title, necessity is the mother of invention. The article was interesting and everything there made sense. But I sat there
stunned, not by what it said, but by what was missing. If necessity is the mother of invention, who is the father?
Well a few tens of minutes later, the answer emerged. And this one, I was happy with. If necessity is the mother of
invention, then opportunity is the father. This course is about creativity, whether you have a problem, requirement, or
issue that you need to tackle, or some wonderful opportunity and you want lots of creative ideas. We will be exploring
the fundamentals of creativity and the series of creativity tools. Enabling you to build a tool box of skills that you can roll
out whenever there's a need or opportunity to tackle. The combination of the toolbox, along with a fundamental
understanding of creativity, will we hope help you to be more creative and more effective in both your work and
personal life.

Reflection & Thoughts (max 300 words)

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