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DEFINITION
ABILITY TO USE THOUGHT AND IMAGINATION to transcend patterns and relations to CREATE new ideas and forms
CREATIVITY&INNOVATION
Essence of value creation in life's situation Very critical to the innovation process Innovation is essential in research Basic research should have innovation content Innovation index is being evaluated abroad
THEORY
Theoretically being related to associative imagination Learning also involves association and imagination But associative imagination is different from learning intelligence Poor learners and scorers can be very creative
CREATIVITY PROCESS
Be able to think of UNCONVENTIONAL or even strange associations Words, figures and situations act as cues for imagination One can train oneself to be creative with some systematic effort
THIN SLICING
observation of the ordinary Challenge current notions Imaginative associations-parallels Absence-transcendence Thinking without thinking Discriminative logic-mind maps Final derivation
THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS
Einstein, Schrdinger-good examples Gravity effects equated to effects due to acceleration Acceleration from space-time curvature Combination of many ideas expressed in philosophy, science and mathematics
CONCEPT OF FALLOW
Farmers leave their fields fallow after intense farming Fallow thinking-regenerates mind Concentrate,think,read,study and research intensely for sometime Then take a vacation,picnic,chat with friends or browse and while away
Creative FLASH
When you return you will have a flash Unconscious working on the implicit images Studies in consciousness and cognition Implicit learning influences cognition Unconscious manipulation of mental images when not disturbed-fallow
FREE WILL
Some recent neurophysiologic findings are very surprising-discount free will Conscious decisions are unconsciously predetermined Similarity to our karma theory and destiny Destiny and time relates events and objects and situations in universe
PROCESS PHILOSOPHY
Mathematical philosophers like Whitehead advocate internalized breath work
Adapted from Sidha Yoga techniques and based on breathing pattern and rhythm during sleep Sleep disorders and poor breathing affects learning and creativity
THOUGHT SHOWERS (OR BRAINSTORMING) ASKING QUESTIONS - WHAT IF? BLOCKING AND BLOCK-BUSTING RANDOM WORD OR RANDOM PICTURE USING CHECKLISTS WHAT'S THE PROBLEM? CHALLENGE IT CREATIVE PARALLELS CONCEPT MAPS OR BUZZ MAPS MIND MAPPING (REF:TONY BUZAN)
INCREMENTAL INNOVATIONS
Usually used for tinkering research in industry But equally suited to disruptive technologies Paradigm shifts needed in recession Known as constructive destruction
TECHNO-ECONOMIC CYCLES
Schumpeterian economic cycles every few decades-70-80 years Closely followed by Kondratieff long waves Economic cycles and depression lead to technology cycles and peaks[5-10 y lag Cultural millennial cycles-700-900 years
LEADERSHIP
Creativity management based on sustainable leadership Task-behavior types/malevolentbenevolent types Intuitve-perceptive,introvertextrovert,sensing-judging types Sustainable leadership based on extended self concept
PHENOMENOLOGY
Extended self has become a disparate localised self due to phenomenology Phenomenology is part of conscious cognition of world through senses and intellect Pure consciousness and extended universal self is a process back to Being
PERCEPTIONS OF REALITY
This is very crucial for sustainable leadership We project mental images onto world as part of phenomenology and sensing Reality not knowable through reason as observed by Kant Discrimination, and transcendence [pure consciousness] is essential
PHILOSOPHER -KING
This brings us to the concept of philosopher king in Indian philosophy Sustainable leaders mange creative people Extended self notions needed for it Comes from pure consciousness states of absence-also helps in creative thinking
HOME WORK
I was cleaning my overhead tank[sintex] water with very fine particles of clayey
red mud settles down Forms fibers clinging to tank walls These are somewhat rubbery and polymeric What ideas,projects,processes or products can you derive from this experience
Nanoporous materials with good gas absorption Problem of atmospheric carbon scavenging Can it be functionalized to sequester carbon, chemical scavenging Decay to soil or ecofriendly product when UV irradiated, photo transformation
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