Monday, July 4, 2011

The art of Creative Thinking - John Adair

It was only that I was in a book store and I had to buy a book and wanted something on creativity so got this book. Things that are worth mentioning.

Method 1 - Use Analogies
Example of famous analogies that led to inventions
Cats - Cats eyes in the road
Spiders - Networks
Earthworms - New type of drilling
Dew drops on leave - Magnifying glass

Point 2 - See the familiar as strange.

Point 3 - Widen your relevance. Learn to unlearn.
Invention
Ballpoint Pen - Sculptor
Parking Meter - Journalist

Point 4-
Ask a lot of questions. Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities. And only by gambling can we take advantage of them.

Have persistence
A red clover contains less then 1/8th grain of sugar. 7000 grains make 1 pound of honey i.e. 56,000 clovers required. 1 clover means 60 flower tubes i.e. 33.60 lakhs. It secures sweetness for 1 pound of Honey.

"I have never started a poem whose end I knew" Robert Frost

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