Let’s Talk About CreativityTruth or Dare?@Natasa Christou

Architect, Academic Tutor, Phd Researcher, Entrepreneur

There are lots of interesting topics

What is creativity?

Creativity and innovation?

Creativity and intelligence

How to unlock your creative power

How do we measure creativity?Is everyone creative?

Why creativity matters

Creativity and intelligence Creativity and education

Creative chaos

The creative genius

Creative personalities

There are lots of interesting topics

What is creativity?

Creativity and innovation?

Creativity and intelligence

How to unlock your creative power

How do we measure creativity?Is everyone creative?

Why creativity matters

Creativity and intelligence Creativity and education

Creative chaos

The creative genius

Creative personalities

About creativity….. Are you ready for the next slide?

CreativityThe process of having original ideas that have value

-Sir Ken Robinson

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painting More paintings

Life Outside The BoxConvergent vs Divergent Thinking

“But I’m not the creative type of

person”WRONG

Who can be creative?

Creativity is not just for artists, musicians, writers, and designers. We are all creative, but the people who are

known for it have spent time cultivating it, failing at it, and working at it

ARTISTIC CREATIVI

TY[creator needs,

personal perception, motivation]

SCIENTIFIC

CREATIVITY

[problem-solving]

HYBRIDCREATIVITY [both]

KINDS OF CREATIVITY

BUSSINESS MATHSEDUCATI

ON

CREATIVITY IN DIFFERENT DISCIPLINES

MUSIC

[ENTREPRENEURSHIP][INNOVATION][PROBLEM-SOLVING][COMPOSITION]

1.Identifing a

problem [*or

opportunity]

3.Implementing

solutions

2.Solving the

problem

THE CREATIVE PROCESS

Loving what you do gives you courage to survive the creative process…

If changes occur ina social, political, economic or demographic level, if new inventions are discovered that provide new knowledge, then opportunities can exist.

-Venkataraman, 1997

JAPAN MUSHROOMS LAMP

[POLLUTION TROUGHINCREASED RADIATION LEVELS]

[MUSHROOMS THATABSORD AND DISOLVE

RADIATION]

[MUSHROOM POWDERCAN BECOME CONSTRUCTION

MATERIAL]

PROBLEM/OPPORTUNITY DISCOVERY INNOVATION

+ +PASSION KNOWLEDGE EXPERIENCE

METHOD

FROM CREATIVITY TO INNOVATION

*And this is why creativity truly matters

How-to Cultivate your Creativity

THE 7 DARES! ARE YOU READY?

#1Dare to Embrace Failure, but fail wiselyAllow yourself to embrace the process of experimentation. This doesn’t mean that being wrong equals to being creative. But if you are not prepared to be wrong you will never come up with anything original

Remember that the biggest inventions in history happened by accident.

#2Dare to take action

If you only do what you can do you will never be better that you are

If you have ideas, but don’t act on them, you are imaginative but not creative

#3Dare to stay curious

The ability to challenge basic assumptions, empowers divergent and critical thinking.

The more critical thinker you become the better chances are to discover or create something novel!

#4 Dare to Be you

What are you really good at?

What are your values?

What are your weaknesses?

#5 Dare to Work on something you are truly passionate about

Boyan Slat, just 19 years old, designed The world’s first ocean cleaning system dedicated for cleaning plastic waste from the oceans.

Boyan is obsessed with diving and upset about all the waste that destroys our oceans

#6 Dare to Be persistent

You never know howClose you are… neverGive up on your dreams.

Stick to the process. Results do come over time not over night.

#4Dare to have life experiences

If Steve Jobs didn’t takeCalligraphy classes in his youth, today Apple’s designs might not have been provided it’s elegance.

“It was the first computer with beautiful typography,” Jobs said. “If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts.”

CreativityReally good associative

memory.-Joe Zeoli

So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.

* THERE ISN’T ANY LIMIT TO WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH YOUR CAREER AND YOUR LIFE.