Try to link the 9 dots below with no more than 3 straight lines which will

cross through all 9 dots, without lifting your pencil.

Try to link the 9 dots below with no more than 3 straight lines which will

cross through all 9 dots, without lifting your pencil.

Be creative everyday !!

Use the left part of your brain !!

Creativity for Everybody

• Creativeness is not a gift:

It is a SKILL

• Creativeness produced through a positive attitude

• Creativeness can be learned throughout life

Why creativity?• Find new ways to make

money

• Create new business opportunities

• Create new products, services, and processes

• Improve old products, services, and processes

• Be the “idea person” in your organization

Have Fun Exploring and Discovering

• Choose to add explorations into each day, week, month, year of your life.

• Experience new things

“Curiosity is the key to creativity”

Akio Morita (1921 - ), Ex CEO of Sony, Made in Japan (1986)

Challenge Everything

• Don’t be a monkey

• Challenge every assumptions

• Explore Options

• Every day in every way

“The important thing is not to stop questioning.”

Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955)

Relax

• Give yourself time to relax and let your subconscious mind do its job – Listen to music on

headphones while lying on the floor

– Do nothing

Some exercises• Focusing Exercise

– Focus on one color every day

• Reverse Assumptions– 1rst: List all assumptions about the

subject– 2nd: Reverse each assumption– 3rd: Ask yourself how to accomplish

each reversal– 4th: Select one and build it into a

realistic idea

Who Can Help us be More Creative?

• Broken Crayons: Break Your Crayons and Draw Outside the Lines by Robert Alan Black, Ph.D., CSP

• Brain Boosters for Business Advantage by Arthur van Gundy, Ph.D.

• Thinkertoys by Michael Michalko

3 Points to remember

• Have fun exploring

• Challenge every assumption

• Relax

I wish you the most creative life

You can create for YOU!

Starting right now!