creativity 6th element the universe part 1

Now let us look at question no: 2

The first answer that pops out is 15, but it is not the
only answer, there can be many. We will see such
answers in the next issue of Inscriptions.
SO THE FIRST ASPECT OF CREATIVE THINKING THAT
WE LEARN HERE IS THAT “ THERE CAN BE MORE
THAN ONE ANSWER FOR A PROBLEM AND THE
MORE THE ANSWERS WE CAN FIND THE MORE THE
CHOICES WE HAVE TO SOLVE IT". Some comments i
get to commonly hear when i start a training on
Creative thinking:
1) This might be needed for artists, play writers,
designers
and people like them. 2) Creative thinking is a
natural ability and it can not be
acquired by training. 3)i don't think that i can ever
think “out of box” 4)Such new ideas comes once in
a while by itself, by luck,
or coincidence.
While there may be some truth in these statements,
they are not always true.
Creative thinking might be more visible in the
creations of a play writer or an artist, but this ability
is useful in every sphere of life and business.
Even in a field like Law, which is operative on logics,
there is scope of creative thinking. For example an
prosecutor cross examining the accused, who he
knows is lying about not being present at the scene,
uses a method called reversal. like he insists on a
time that the crime took place, that the accused
refutes it by giving the correct timing of the
incident. Earl Stanley Gardner the creator of "Perry
Mason" has demonstrated this in every one of his
book.
In a kitchen, the lady finds the knife missing, and
the syrup in the vessel is boiling on the stove, that
the cut vegetables need to be put inside it, uses a
spade to chop the vegetable ( albeit not shapely)
and drop into the boiling syrup just in time. Boys
find the ball punctured, fill it with waste papers and
roll rubber bands on it to play with a home made
ball.
The host has only 23 candles and it is the 25th
anniversary of the couple, makes a Roman letter
XXV in a formation with the 23 candles.

A tailor sees a wrong cut made by his assistant on a

cloth given for stitching a suit, makes a design of the
cut, that the customer finds it a nice surprise of a
new design.
customer finds it a nice surprise of a new design.
Right from board rooms where directors take policy
decisions to the shop floor where the worker solves
a problem, creative thinking is in play. Right from
parliaments where nation's destiny is shaped to the
farmer on the field to the teacher in the school to
the labour on the road, everywhere creative
thinking plays well.
CREATIVITY: THE 6TH ELEMENT OF THE UNIVERSE
Whenever a human is faced with constraint, his
brain fights the constraint, wriggles itself out and
comes out with fabulous solutions that the world
has never ever seen. Mahatma Gandhi entered the
freedom movement of India almost 40 years since it
had begun. His belief in truth, and his
understanding of humanity, gave India a different
direction. Till then world wide struggles have been
violent. The mightier won. Gandhiji thought
differently. When people use physical might they
cause pain to others. He knew that it will cause pain
even to the one who inflicts it. Basically he also is a
human being. So we will attack no one, hit no one,
but we will receive the blows, and through our pain
we will make them see their injustice.
People have never been used to this type of a
struggle. For them it has always been hit them, kill
them and they will be afraid of us and they will run
away scared. But that strategy was not working,
because they were more equipped. And the war
was mostly one-sided, in their favour.
When Gandhiji launched Satyagraha, non-violence,
noncooperation and led the struggle from the front,
the armed
forces of the Raj continued their style of attacking,
lathicharging, firing on a crowd that did not hit
back, but took all the force on it. they stood row
after row, when the first row people fell
unconscious, the second row came to the front. The
media captured this and made it headlines world
wide. The forces were shamed. As the protest
continued, the generals could not marshal their
forces as many were demoralised. Negotiations
started, and in 1947 India got her independence.
This started a new way of struggle world wide,
countries like South Africa followed and succeeded.

Every one of us can think creatively. Because

creative thinking is one of the normal functions of
our right brain. Therefore to say that we can not
think creatively is like proclaiming that we have only
one half of the brain, which is untrue. As like any
other function which is not used for a long time
takes efforts to revive again, this aspect also might
have got morphed under many other pressing
functions of the daily routine.
Psychologists and neurologists have repeatedly
researched on the functions of the right brain to
understand the trigger points and how its neuro-
connections gets fired.

We will be continuing this discussions in parts in the

"Inscriptions” to follow. Keep reading so that we
can redevelop the hidden potential inside each one
of us in a scientific and systematic way.
We will also learn how to fire such creative ideas in
an organisational context from all the team
members, in the following chapters.