be CREATIVE!

Bismillahirahmanirahim,

Alhamdulillah, we meet again. Thanks to Him, give us one more chance to ask His forgiveness and enjoy our life. Almost all the time we forgot to show our appreciation and grateful. First month end yesterday. After had been ‘brain washed’ by Madam Sita, Madam Liza and Miss Nani, my friends and I have come with new spirit in blogging. Sorry for not being such a good trainee. But I know we will try to improve.

Second module for second month in Best 2010. Today is our first day, learning about creativity and innovation with Prof. Barjoyai Bin Bardai. First thing that I have noticed today is every second, our mind keep thinking and make thousand of decisions without we realize it. It’s true. Second, do not judge too early cause you may kill the ideas of other person and make them down.

We were introduced about IQ (intelligence), EQ (emotional), CQ (creativity), SQ (spiritual), and PQ (entrepreneurship). All these aspects must balance in ourselves. IQ has been inherited from parents but others you have develop by your own. For me, it is useless if you have high IQ, PQ, and CQ level but your EQ and SQ are low. You are superb with data and facts but when comes in dealing with feeling, you fail to face it wisely.

Our first topic is about creativity and innovation. At first, some of us thought that this topic was too heavy and suppress our mind. But actually not at all. We enjoy our class today. It is interesting when we know there are so many new inventions out there and sometimes it looks weird and out of norm. But actually, that is CREATIVE. Something that is out of context and some people may say that it’s impossible.

So, what is creativity? How we know that we are creative enough? The definition of creativity is the ability to discover new relationship, to look at subjects from new perspective and to form new combination from two or more concepts that already in the mind. During the process, mind will re-arrange and associate all the knowledge and experiences in new ways. It is process of blending of knowledge, imagination and evaluation.

How about innovation? A convenient definition of innovation is the successful introduction of a new thing or method. It is also known as embodiment, combination, or synthesis of knowledge in valued new products. For example, Alexander Graham Bell was the inventor of telephone, and after that, other people improved the design of telephone and the function. During that era, telephone was only used to voice call but now, there are video call, wiFi and many more. Alexander Graham Bell was a creative person and the persons that improved his product were innovative. They upgrade the value of invention.

But sometimes, when we try to be creative or in other word, being different from others and norm, people will call us weirdo, nerd or alien and look at us like we are criminal. Actually all this is based on the thinking paradigm. According to Edward De Bono, human being has developed their “logic bubble” in mind through experiences and knowledge. When they find some new things that are not install in their logic bubble, their will reject it. In this logic bubble, there are 5 aspects that are considered which are culture, way of life, basic perception, norms and regulations. This bubble is covered by EGO. It is important to have ego to have pride and self important but you have to control it.

So, to be creative, you have to know the concept of creative thinking. The paradox in creative thinking is:

CREATIVE IDEAS = NEW IDEAS = WRONG IDEAS

Hence, ALL NEW IDEAS = WRONG IDEAS = STRANGE IDEAS

All new ideas are wrong because it does not fit to logic base in our mind, and never been accepted before. And all new ideas are good ideas because it is basic spirit in creative thinking. So, all new ideas are creative ideas.

Today session made us open our mind. Don’t be afraid to be creative. Think out of box. People may laugh at you but we never know what will happen in future. Maybe you will the one that smile to them back. Who know? So, keep moving. Try your hard to contribute something to the world.

May Allah bless us and see ya!