9 steps to be creative

Many people thinks they are not creative. Einstein once said, "Every child is born a genius." But the reason why most people do not function at genius levels is because they are not aware of how creative and smart they really are.

Here are 9 steps to be creative.It's certainly not the only way, but this basic outline of the process may be helpful.

1. Knowledge -- Study, read, learn, ask questions, try to know as much as possible.

2. Preparation -- Decide on a small area or problem, focus, gather all the physical elements you may need.

3. Relaxation -- Give yourself space, set aside time, clear your mind of other concerns,eliminate distractions.

4. Play -- Be silly, stupid, have fun, approach the problem in every way you can think of,even the dumb ones, especially the dumb ones, just let your mind wander, act like a child, no one is watching.

5. Awareness -- Pay attention to your inner dialogue, ask yourself why you keep going about things the same way, force yourself to break the rules.

6. Acceptance -- Embrace the stupid, weird, ugly, nonsense, pointless, just let it happen without feeling that anything is wrong.

7. Record -- Write or draw or video everything, doodle, jot, make notebooks, carry a pad or recorder with you.

8. Judge -- After you have all the ideas generated then you can begin to edit to try to make sense of your foolishness, analyze, test.

9. Apply -- If something works even a little bit see if you can develop it further, put the workable ideas in and play some more.

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KISS Principle

Last week I was reading an article and came across a nice principle called as KISS principle. KISS stands for Keep It simple Stupid .Kiss principle has been used for decades by military, business schools, medical schools and in countless other areas where unneeded complexities can be avoided at all costs. Adding complexity to a business venture where it is not required will often get you fired or see your company go down. Added complexity or looking for complex answers to simple problems in medical strings can cause a loss of life or unneeded suffering.

All of know this principle but we don’t follow this principle and create unnecessary problems in our life. I will take a common example when we suffer any diseases we visit one physician and use their prescribe drugs for few days and if it didn’t work or working slowly we consult a different physician and makes our case more complex. Few people use different medicines like allopathic, homeopathy, aurvedic at etc, at time for early recovery. Adding too many variables makes things more difficult, especially when trying to figure out where something is working or why it is not. Clearly the KISS approach fails to be effective as more variables are added to a program. It fails to be KISS.

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler

Albert Einstein
What it means is Keep in simple stupid where ever possible, but don't simplify it to a pint where it is no longer effective true.

Simplicity + consistency = success

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A Nice article about entrepreneurship in India..

A nice article about Can we have Microsoft/FaceBook/Google from India? Can Indian Society produce Gates/Larry/Zuckerburg? I am sure you will like it.

http://www.pluggd2008/07/microsoft-facebook-google-from-india-can-indian-society-produce-gates-larry-zuckerburg.in/


Happy Reading

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