Creativity and innovation - Part II

Alhamdulillah, thanks to Allah for giving me another chance to breathe for another new day.

Day 2 – 30 December 2010

Today session, I learnt about the brain function, both left and right brain. Left side of the brain handles logical thinking while the right side of the brain deals with creative thinking. People mostly use their left brain (98%) compared to the right brain. There was a balanced thinking approach so called the seven hats thinking whereby seven different color of hats with different approach. The seven hats thinking include:

·         White hat – has to do with data and information

·         Red hat – has to do with feelings, intuition, hunches and emotions

·         Black hat – caution hat, negative aspect

·         Yellow hat – positive thinking

·         Green hat – creative thinking and new ideas

·         Blue hat – control, suggest the next step in the thinking

·         Grey hat – religious hat

In group, we chose one issue and discussed it based on the seven hats thinking approach. My group issue is about the bringing back Malaysian professionals residing abroad. By using the approach, it made us to think from every aspect which later will lead to a better conclusion and decision.

For the innovation part, again in group, we discussed an idea to innovate any object that already in the market. We need to list down all the main component of the selected object and remove one of it to produce a new object. My group selected a camera and we remove the lenses to make the camera lighter, smaller and convenience. We replace the lenses with the virtual lenses.

Today session need a lot of creative thinking where I need to squeeze my head to come up with new and brilliant idea. The conclusion for today sessions:

“Man is stupider than animals”

Man may be able to go much further in his thinking than animals only because his basic thinking process is less precise