CREATIVITY WORKSHOP

Creativity is . . . . . . the ability to see existing objects or processes and combine them in different ways for new purposes or to solve existing issues.
Creativity comes from the word create which means: 1. To bring into existence 2. To produce through imaginative skill Another word for creativity: IMAGINATIVE

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

- Albert Einstein

The world is but a canvass to our imaginations

- Henry David Thoreau
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New ideas is a function of old ideas.

Creative Thinking
Creative thinking consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.

Creative thinking requires an outlook that allows you to search for ideas and play with your knowledge and experience. By changing context or perspective and playing with our knowledge, we can make the ordinary extraordinary.
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Creative Thinking
Knowledge is the stuff from which new ideas are made. The real key to being creative lies in what you do with your knowledge.

Myths About Creativity

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Its rare. Only artists have it. Only high IQs have it. You need to hire it. Its in your right brain. Its mysterious.
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Creativity as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we know in order to find out what we do not know. Hence, to think creativily, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.

-George Kneller
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether this happen at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remain young, but becomes constantly more valuable regardless of physical capacity.

-Harvey Ullman
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