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IMRUL KASE

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Wednesday, March 30, 2016

A. What did you learn from watching this video and reading the comments? Focus on the
relationship between understanding and doing, the impact of age on ability to learn, and the
challenge that mental patterning gets in the way creative thinking.
Most of the cases it is hard for the people to think beyond the habit or pattern of behavior they have
developed throughout their past lives. They develop certain very organized and sequential ways (or
algorithm) of doing thing. Brain messes the whole thing if suddenly some changes come which is
different than that algorithm. This is related to cognitive bias which is again is related to neural
plasticity. Kids brains are more plastic, they can learn new things very quickly and very fluid to do the
same thing in a different way but adults brains are comparatively less plastic. Therefore it takes
initially a little more time (1200 minutes for Destin to learn backward bike) to train brains to adapt
new things but when the brain is ready it can adapt quickly which means we become quick to redesignate our bias (20 minutes to go back normal way of cycling). People gather knowledge about how
ride a bicycle through experience and information but do not try to realize/understand brains behavior
or way of learning that knowledge. Thats why knowledge and understanding is not same and high
analytical ability will not guarantee a novel way of thinking.
B. In what ways does the bicycle riding experiment relate to your own abilities to think creatively?
Yes, it is true for me that I like to see things the way I learned to see. The lesson I have learned from the
bicycle experiment that through courage, patience, persuasion and practice people can increase
plasticity of their brain and train the brain to easily and quickly adopt unusual ways to do things.
C. Expand your knowledge about perceptual, emotional, cultural, environmental, intellectual and
expressive blocks to creative problem solving by finding an article that discusses one or more of
these blocks and writing a summary of the article. Open and read the attached article Blocks to
Problem Solving to find more information about these kinds of blocks.
Lack of Drawing Confidence (Expressive Block):
People who believe they lack creativity often insist, I cannot draw. More than any other skill, people
see drawing as a litmus test for creativity. Everyone acknowledges that certain skills, like playing the
piano, take years of training. But a common misconception is that we are either good at drawing or we
are not. In reality, drawing is a skill that we can learn and improve through practice with little
guidance. A sketch is often worth a thousand words. Great communicators in todays fast paced
business world should never hesitate to reach for marker pen. Unfortunately, most people shy away
from the opportunity to sketch out their idea on the board. Or when they do, they prefer their efforts
with a disclaimer about their lack of drawing ability.
Dan helps people to get over their hesitation to grasp the marker pen and approach the whiteboard by
drawing the barrier. He does this by dissociating artistic drawing for communication. He insists that
everything you ever need to draw on a whiteboard or on a napkin can be constructed in to five basic
shapes: a line, a square, a circle, a triangle and an irregular shape called blob. Next he explain drawing
fundamentals such as size, position and direction that can seem comically simple yet still go under
used. On the topic of size, for example, if you make one object bigger than another, your audience will
understand that this object is either closer or you guessed it larger. And so it goes. With the five
shapes above we can draw anything including people. With a focus on drawing for communication
not art Dan can amp up your sketching skills in matter of minutes. Most of us accept that when we
are learning a new sport like skiing, we will fall down and other skiers of the slopes will see us with
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our faces planted in the snow. But when it comes to creative work, we tend to freeze up. And not just
when we are novices. With people who draw well, perfectionism can be every bit as crippling as a lack
of confidence in nondrawers.
D. Read and summarize the article. Make sure that you cite the article, i.e. provide sufficient
information on where others can locate it and read it themselves.
Reclaim Your Creative Confidence
[Harvard Business Review, December 2012]
http://www.ideo.com/images/uploads/news/pdfs/HBR_Reclaim_your_Creative_Confidence_R1212K.pdf
Most of the people are born creative but with the time we learn to be warier of judgment, more
cautious, more analytical. Creativity cannot be taught, creative confidence can only be rediscovered
which come up with natural ability of generating new ideas and the courage to try them out. It is done
by giving them strategies to get past four fears that hold them back: fear of messy unknown, fear of
being judged, fear of the first step and fear of losing control. According to bandura these fears can be
overcome by a process called Guided Mastery the process of experiencing one small success after
another. After going through the process people learn to try harder, persevere longer and have more
resilience in the face of failure. They gain new confidence in their ability to attain what they set out to
do.
Fear of messy unknown: Creative thinking in business begins with having empathy for customers
(whether they are internal or external) and it cannot be get sitting behind the desk. Out in the world is
more chaotic. People have to deal with unexpected findings, with uncertainty and with irrational
people who say things which is heartbreaking and demotivating. But that is where people find insights
and creative breakthrough.
Fear of being judged: It takes only a few years to develop that fear of judgment, but it stays with us
throughout our adult lives, often constraining our careers. People self-edit, killing potentially creative
ideas because they are afraid our bosses or peers will see us fail. They stick to safe solutions or
suggestions. They hang back, allowing others to take risks. But one cannot be creative if he is
constantly censoring himself. Half the battle is to resist judging oneself. If one can listen to ones own
intuition and embrace more of his ideas (good and bad), he already partway overcoming this fear. So
baby steps have to be taken. Instead of letting thoughts run through the head and down the drain, they
have to be captured systematically in some form of idea notebook.
Fear of the First Step: Planning needs to be stopped and it needs immediate startingand the best
way to do that is to stop focusing on the huge overall task and find a small piece that can be tackled
right away. In a business context, one can push himself to take the first step by asking: What is the
low-cost experiment? Whats the quickest, cheapest way to make progress toward the larger goal? Or
give himself a crazy deadline and to follow start simple strategy. The mantra is Dont get ready, get
started! The first step will seem much less daunting if a tiny one is made and forced to do it right
now. Rather than stalling and allowing anxiety to build, just start inching toward the fear.
Fear of Losing Control: Confidence doesnt simply mean believing own ideas are good. It means
having the humility to let go of ideas that arent working and to accept good ideas from other people.
When someone abandons the status quo and work collaboratively, he sacrifices control over his
product, his team, and his business. But the creative gains can more than compensate. Again, he can
start small. If they are facing a tough challenge, try calling a meeting with people fresh to the topic.
Look for opportunities to cede control and leverage different perspectives.
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No matter what group people are in or where people work, there are always more ideas outside than
inside. For people with diverse backgrounds fear of the messy unknown, of judgment, of taking the first
step, or of letting gocould have blocked the path to innovation.
E. How does what you learned by doing this assignment impact on your ability to (the 6 stages of
CPS Process)?
Construct opportunities
Explore data
Frame Problems
Generate ideas
Develop solutions
Build Acceptance
After having done this assignment, it made me do the followings:
Construct opportunities:
Define many specific opportunities or challenges that can be addressed using CPS.
Apply three important standards (broad, brief, beneficial) and three criteria for ownership
(interest, influence and imagination) in formulating opportunity statements.
Construct or choose specific opportunity statements for a specific task.
Explore data:
Describe exploring data and explain its importance in CPS.
Define and use five sources of data, giving examples and differentiating among them.
Describe and use a variety of methods and tools for generating and analysis of data, to determine
the key data that need to be considered.
Frame Problems:
Define and give examples of four essential elements of a problem statement (invitational stem,
ownership, action verb and problem solving goal or objective).
Generate many different problem statements for a given task.
Broaden and redefine problem statements by using different level of abstraction, changing key
words or identifying sub problems.

Select or construct effective problem statements based on application of specific criteria (brief,
concise, relevant focus, free of criteria, idea finding potential).

Generate ideas:
Define and give examples of fluency, flexibility, originality and elaboration and explain their use
in CPS.
Describe and apply specific tools for generating many options, formulating different or varied
possibilities and developing novel or unusual options.
Identify and select ideas or cluster of ideas that are new, intriguing and promising for further
refinement and development.
Apply specific tools for generating ideas when working on my own problems and questions.

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Develop solutions:
Explain the purposes of the developing solutions stage.
Define criteria and their use.
Identify sources and categories of criteria.
Generate a variety of criteria for a specific task.
Select the most appropriate and important criteria for use with specific task.
Select the most appropriate and important criteria for use with a specific task.
Explain and use several alternative tools to evaluate and develop options.
Explain and give examples of three different uses of criteria (to screen, select or support ideas.)
Distinguish criteria that are essential for evaluating options from those that are primarily useful
for polishing or refining options.
Apply evaluation and development tools on several possible solutions for a task of my own.
Build Acceptance:
Identify and consider many possible sources of assistance or resistance for implementing
potential solutions.
Develop a list of possible actions or responses that might be considered for key sources of
assistance or resistance.
Identify at least many reasons why people might resist the change you want to create and
strategies to uncover them.
Identify ways to prevent obstacles from arising or to overcome if they do occur.
Formulate a detailed plan of action, including specific steps to be taken (short, medium and long
range actions, as well as obtaining feedback and revising the plan.

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