“Knowledge Processing, Creativity and Politics” By Showan Khurshid

“Creativity and Politics” 
There are many approaches to the understanding of creativity and one of such interpretations is the book by Kurdish doctor and writer Showan Khurshid, titled Knowledge Processing, Creativity and Politics. His explanation of the concept of creativity deviates somewhat from the traditional and revolutionary school of thought to something that is quite ‘evolutionary’ and philosophical, banking mostly on idea of human morality.

According to Dr Khurshid, societal changes are actively linked with people’s perceptions of morality, as opposed to the usual Marx-inspired thinking of relating such advances and changes to class stuggle and differences in economic status and background.

His book, Knowledge Processing, Creativity and Politics places a question mark on the rather conventional way we treat and deal with differences in ideologies, philosophies and religions. Dr Khurshid adopts the thinking the morality approach can be applied to all aspects and strains of human life. The main question he seeks to answer is: how is it possible to have political order and peace?

Knowledge Processing, Creativity and Politics stresses that man’s most important and vital characteristic to survive in this world is his creative faculties. That is, the ability to obtain, pass on and apply the knowledge he has learned, based on his physical makeup or biology, his mental abilities or psychology and experiences.

Creativity, to him, is a prerequisite for morality. Thus, the best form of morality is what would help our creativity grow best. People should agree on their perceptions and definitions of morality in order to resolve conflicts, obtain peace, give rise to political power and, eventually, achieve peace and order.

However, we may ask how this ‘agreement’ is possible in a world with varying interests, orientations and tastes. When we really think about it, a lot of liberal ideologies and democracies have fallen to conflict because of moral disagreements; and, oftentimes, how societies, groups and concepts evolve are also based on such disagreements.

This is not to say, however, that because the presence of these disagreements is common to all societies, that they all ended up in the same vein. Because of the variations in history and background, they have transformed into different societies with different, sometimes even opposing political thrusts and histories.

Knowledge Processing, Creativity and Politics tackles the above issue at greater length, and it will take more than just this article to summarize all the ideas Dr Khurshid has suggested. One thing is clear, however, is that creativity is a powerful force in all of life’s movements and shifts. Creativity is among the factors that influence and effect change. Thus, it is something that we should care for and constantly seek to improve and cultivate.

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Games for Creativity

Games for Creativity 
Everyone has a capability to be creative. However, oftentimes, it is hidden within your personality and you have to pry open certain body organs to get your creativity out in the open.

Your brain contains that creativity but you have to exercise your brain cells first before you can get your brain on the go. This is where the games for creativity step in.

The goal of these games and exercises is to show how crazy or how impossible problems may be talked about and solved, with the use of evaluations and different analyses that are not usually thought of in a traditional problem-solving situation.

They are not present to rate the most intelligent or the brightest person, but they are there to give you suggestions about ways in recognizing the things that make you inefficient or limit you to your conventional thinking.

The first game is, in some ways, a game that was developed by Andersen Consulting, otherwise called as Accenture. Accenture will be much of help to you in understanding your style of thinking a lot better. The questions involved in this game quiz are not at all difficult, but you still have to think for a while before you blurt out your answer.

“How do you put a giraffe in the fridge?” Well, the answer is very easy you do not have to call a friend for this one. It is simple. You open the fridge first, put the giraffe inside, and then close the fridge. This question tries to determine if you have a tendency to complicate simple things.

The next question strictly follows the first one. “How do you put an elephant in the fridge?” You would probably open the fridge, put the elephant inside then shut the fridge close. On the contrary, that is not how this question is to be answered. Yes, opening the fridge does come first, but you have to remove the giraffe first, replace it with the elephant, and that is when you close the fridge. Your ability to consider implications was put under the spotlight.

These games make you creative because you tend to dig deeper in your brain to come out with the best, and most logical, answer. Brace yourself, for more questions are to come.

The king of the jungle assembled a moot for the animals. Every animal from the jungle was there, except for one. Now which one was that? It was the elephant. Why so? Have you forgotten that you left the elephant in the fridge? This question will check your memory, or how effective it can be.

Now imagine yourself having to cross a river. You, again, face another dilemma, for the river is infested with crocodiles, and these crocodiles are far from being vegetarians. What are you going to do now? Actually, you can swim across the river for as long as you like, well at least, before the moot is over because all the crocodiles are busy enjoying at the moot. This question tries to see if you learn quickly form the mistakes you have committed.

These game quizzes checked if there are certain areas in your brain that are not productive, thus, will hinder you from being creative. Their main goal is to make you think, given the estimation of how absolutely weird or absurd some problems can get. Solve these games for creativity correctly and you are bound to be one heck of a creative person.

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Techniques to Becoming Creative

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Sometimes, you perceive of yourself as someone who would not know creativity even if it knocked you on the head with a sledgehammer. And sometimes, you just come to the realization that you and creativity just would not mix. It is like oil and water for you and creativity, or so you think.

You must not give up. If you imagine feeling the wrath of Zeus every time you need to be creative, do not put a lid on it. All you need is a technique, a creativity technique.

Creativity techniques make your world a better place to live in. But just like everyone’s common world, these techniques also have bad points. Think of them as a giant tool box, with all you might ever need to build your own house. It has lots and lots of tools but you just have to pick the right one.

The first technique would be the basic model. With this model, you have to think of what it is that really hinders you on your path to creativity, and jot it down in non-technical formal. Show what you wrote to people who have never experienced that kind of problem and ask them for ideas and for their opinions. You can also recommend to them thinking on it overnight or for a few days.

Once they speak up, take down any thoughts and ideas they air out regarding the “real” problem and any solutions that are of high potential. It is very essential that what they expect of your ability to utilize their ideas are put in a realistic perspective. You can develop or re-interpret the ideas they gave you to make them more workable for you. You should not dismiss the notion that the idea might be technically naïve, but still, you can work on it to make it more thought-provoking.

But, of course, if you use ideas of other people, you cannot just use them just like that. You have to give a responsive feedback to whoever helped you to show that what they did is highly valued, appreciated and of productive use. If your helper receives a positive response of how his or her ideas were put to good use, he or she will be very glad and will accommodate your needs again.

Another creativity technique is the face-to-face networking model. This technique can only be workable if you are sure that your relationship with the one who helps you is built on trust. For instance, when your helper offers ideas that are somewhat naïve, you still use these ideas to your advantage and not dismiss them immediately.

However, when worse comes to worse, some ideas can sometimes be too out of place that you and your helper need to talk on it. How could you do that? Simple. You just start a conversation at an informal face-to-face meeting at some bar or wherever it is that you would prefer.

If you do decide to use this personal approach, you must have non-directive listening skills so that your helper’s enthusiasm and interest are maintained. Show him or her that whatever it is that he or she is saying is being considered and well-thought of all the time, because if you do not do so, he or she will forget about offering creative ideas for you and you will find yourself in a muddy heap once again.

Basically, you do not have to carry the burden of creativity on your shoulders. There are lots of creativity techniques out there, you just have to know how to use them more effectively.

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Quotes On Creativity

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Creativity is one of the most coveted traits among humans. While certain experts and philosophers agree that creative faculties are something that all of us are naturally born with, cultivating and making these characteristics grow and flourish into something that would give us the greatest benefits and value possible requires some amount of learning, effort and skill.

It is, therefore, for this reason that many people read up constantly on literature about how to boost their creativity, or awaken their ‘sleeping’ creative traits, or why others choose to enrol themselves in creativity molding classes and other courses that aim to boost inspiration. Creativity precedes the success of many goals achieved that people are not afraid to chase after it, even if they face some difficulty.

Here are some creativity quotes that have worked for many of us. People have attested to feeling better motivated and fired up after reading or hearing what others had to say about the subject.

J.S. Brown: “Instead of pouring knowledge into people’s heads, we need to help them grind a new set of eyeglasses so that we can see the world in a new way.”

Arthur C Clarke: “Someone once said that for every problem, there is a solution that is simple, attractive… and wrong.”

Albert Einstein: “Problems cannot be solved by thinking within the framework in which the problems were created.”

Leonardo da Vinci: “Go some distance away because the work appears similar and more of it can be taken in at a glance, and a lack of harmony of proportion is rapidly seen.”

Anonymous: “Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you and just before you realise what’s wrong with it.”

Mae West: “When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I’ve never tried before.”

George Bernard Shaw: “You see things: you say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never are: and say ‘Why not?'”

Chinese proverb: “When a finger points to the moon the imbecile looks at the finger.”

Chinese philosopher, Lao Tzu: “As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it.”

Carl Jung: “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”

Doris Lessing: “Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.”

Henri-Frederic Amiel: “Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour, springs and germinates no more.”

Niels Bohr: “There are some things that are so serious you have to laugh at them.”

Franklin P Jones: “Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.”

Japanese proverb: “None of us are as smart as all of us.”

T.S. Eliot “Between the idea and the reality falls the shadow.”

Mark Twain: “Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one’s head.”

E.M. Forster: “Think before your speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s”

Albert Einstein: “Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”

Walt Disney: “If you can dream it, you can do it.”

Henry David Thoreau: “If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”

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Quotations are considered one of the most powerful literary creations, because they are able to address certain issues and influence people and ideas with just a few words. These soundbites from famous people, or even the infamous and unfamous, are packed with so much meaning that they have lasted through centuries of scrutiny and criticism.

In fact, it’s difficult to criticize quotations, because their meanings and messages are often so clear and hard-hitting that trying to analyze them and split them into sub-meanings is an exercise in futility.

Below are some of the more popular quotations on creativity. Read on and enjoy.

Duke Ellington: “A problem is a chance for you to do your best.”

Leonardo da Vinci: “Go some distance away because the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance, and a lack of harmony or proportion is rapidly seen.”

Ortega Y Gassett: “The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man.”

Albert Einstein: “Problems cannot be solved by thinking within the framework in which the problems were created.”

Jonathan Miller: “Since finding out what something is is largely a matter of discovering what it is like, the most impressive contribution to the growth of intelligibility has been made by the application of suggestive metaphors.”

Haridas Chaudhuri: “The greater the emphasis on perfection the further it recedes.”

Kierkegaard Soren: “Backwards understood be only can but, forwards lived be must life.”

Arie de Geus: “The ability to learn faster than the competition is often the only sustainable competitive advantage a company can have.”

Lauren Bacall: “Standing still is the fastest way of moving backwards in a rapidly changing world. Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.”

Charles Darwin: “In the long history of humankind (and animalhood, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.”

Theodore Levitt: “Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital spark of all human change, improvement and progress.”

Alfred North Whitehead: “The ‘silly’ question is the first intimation of some totally new development.”

Albert Einstein: “If at first, the idea is not absurd, there is no hope for it.”

Michael Porter, Harvard Business School: “Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.”

Peter F Drucker: “Whenever you see a successful business someone once made a courageous decision.”

Buckminster Fuller: “There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes.”

Esa Saarinen: “The opposite of creativity is cynicism.”

Marian Anderson: “As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.”

George Bernard Shaw: “You see things and say ‘Why’. But I dream things that never are and say ‘Why not?'”

Hugh Prather: “Some people will like me and some won’t. So I might as well be myself, and then at leaswt I know that the people who like me, like me.”

J.S. Brown: “Instead of pouring knowledge into people’s heads, we need to help them grind a new set of glasses so that we can see the world in a new way.”

Christopher Logue: “Come to the edge. We might fall. Come to edge. It’s too high! Come to edge! And they came, and he pushed… and they flew.”

Raymond Kurzweil: “Launching a breakthrough idea is like shooting skeet. People need change, so you must aim well ahead of the target to hit it.”

Julius Hare: “Half of the failures in life arise from pulling on one’s horse as it is leaping.”

Albert Szent Gyorgi: “Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.”

Walt Disney: “If you can dream it, you can do it.”

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Creativity Myths

Creativity Myths
Creativity has seemed to become a staple in most if not all areas of business. Creativity is looked for as a quality in new hires as well as put into mission statements of companies. What really makes a person creative?

Creativity is something that is found in each and every person in one way or another. Creativity is such an abstract term that can mean almost anything. When you say a person is full of creativity what do you really mean? Are they good at painting or drawing? Maybe they have a talent for writing or cooking? Creativity is somewhat like a rainbow word that can encompass anything and everything. Despite all of the attention that creativity has been given over the centuries little is known about the daily innovative movements of a so called “creative” person. What exactly causes creativity? What traits did the person who raised them do to help them with their creativity? What kinds of environments support a creative mind? Are exceptionally creative people born or are they molded?

Myths about Creativity

1. Only artists have creativity – Man is born with the capacity to think rationally and the ability to distinguish their own decisions. This in turn tells us that man has the capacity to be creative or hold the capacity to create. Creativity is not limited to those people who can bring a page alive with a few choice words, or paint beautiful scenery that makes you feel as if you are in the middle of a tropical paradise. Anyone and everyone has the ability to be creative, it is simply how we chose to cultivate it.

2. Pressure leads to creativity – Time limits can not be put on creativity. Some people do work well under pressure but when you put your brain on a time crunch it begins to feel stifled. Restricted time leads to restricted creativity. Rules and regulations can not be put on creativity or the process of creativity.

3. Competition is better than Collaboration – The objective of creativity is to think of something novel and perform or deliver on that idea. It really doesn’t matter how a creative idea was though up, whether it was through competition or collaboration, it is still a creative concept that can bring some life and flare to an otherwise mundane thing.

You Are Creativity

Creativity is not being able to paint a picture that will sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Creativity is knowing your limitations and how to work with them. Once you can overcome that then you have free reign of the world around you and can spread your wings and grow!

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