Awaken your suppressed Creativity...........

My intention in making this blog is not only to share my ideas with you all but to ignite the creativity that is already there within you. This blog  is not meant to come up with the single idea of my own, but rather to create an environment where great ideas and creativity can be nurtured and the ideas flow from all of you....

Opening Spell

Believe it or not, everyone of us have substantial creative ability. Just look at how creative children are. In adults, creativity has too often been suppressed in the process of academic education, but it is still there and can be reawakened. Often all that's needed to be creative is to make a commitment to creativity and to take the time for it.

Much of the thinking done in formal education emphasizes the skills of analysis--teaching students how to understand claims, follow or create a logical argument, figure out the answer, eliminate the incorrect paths and focus on the correct one. However, there is another kind of thinking, one that focuses on exploring ideas, generating possibilities, looking for many right answers rather than just one. Both of these kinds of thinking are vital to a successful working life, yet the latter one tends to be ignored.

Somewhere along the line, many of us have forgotten how to use our imagination to think and solve problems out of the box. Roger von Oech, in his book A Whack on the Side of the Head, recounts a teacher’s exercise in examining creativity. The teacher drew a dot on the chalkboard and asked a 12th class students to identify it. They responded with the obvious: a chalk dot. She noted that the day before she had asked a group of kindergartners, and they had come up with numerous examples of what it might be: the top of a telephone pole, a squashed bug, an owl’s eye, a cigar butt, a rotten egg, and so on. Somewhere between childhood and adulthood many of us lose the ability to be creative and search for more than one right answer.


What is Creativity?

Its not a god gift but merely an Ability. A simple definition is that creativity is the ability to imagine or invent something new. Creativity is not the ability to create out of nothing , but the ability to generate new ideas by combining, changing, or reapplying existing ideas. Creativity is also an attitude: the ability to accept change and newness, a willingness to play with ideas and possibilities, a flexibility of outlook, the habit of enjoying the good, while looking for ways to improve it.

The difference between the normal people and the one who are recognized as creative people is that the latter realizes that there are other possibilities and strive hard to continually improve ideas and solutions, by making gradual alterations and refinements to their works instead of accepting only a small number of permitted possibilities.

Why Creativity?


Be it business or an art, creativity and innovation are important keys to success in today’s rapidly changing world.

Process improvement, problem solving, recruiting, retaining and motivating employees, decision making, dealing with limited resources, satisfying customers, drawing audience and rapidly changing technology are all examples of business realities that require solutions with the above said keys to success 'creativity and innovation'.

Why this blog is titled as "TheRightBrainThoughts" ?

Human brain has two very different ways of thinking. One (the right brain) is visual and processes information in an intuitive and simultaneous way, looking first at the whole picture then the details. The other (the left brain) is verbal and processes information in an analytical and sequential way, looking first at the pieces then putting them together to get the whole.

In general we assume humans have only one brain, then why to  talk about Right Brain and Left Brain?

To put it in simple words, the conscious mind is the LEFT BRAIN and the subconscious mind is the RIGHT BRAIN.

Our conscious mind, the left brain processes information logically in straight line like 1,2,3,4,5,6 in a very organized manner and also controls our nervous system. The conscious mind is the place where we develop will power. And this is the function of the conscious decision making capability.

The subconscious mind or the right brain, on the other hand stores memory, organizes, recollects incidents and processes experience. The subconscious mind i.e the right brain is creative and emotional.

The two sides of the brain (called the right brain and left brain, but should more correctly be termed 'hemispheres') communicate with each other constantly, mixing logical, rational thoughts with the abstract and emotional, with emphasis in one hemisphere.

That means just like we don't do everything with only the one hand, so our brain doesn't do everything with one side, although there is generally a preference.

Is it Better to be Right Brained than Left Brained?

Though right-brain or non-verbal thinking is often regarded as more 'creative', there is no right or wrong here; it's merely two different ways of thinking. One is not better than the other, just as being right-handed is not 'superior' to being left-handed.

Mathematicians are generally left brain people while creative thinkers are generally right brain. People of true genius know how to use both, giving greater resilience on the right brain.

Therefore either one way of thinking alone will not be enough in  making our dreams into realities.

Whether one want to be a great entrepreneur, author, musician, painter, or comedian, it takes lots of efforts. One can’t just suddenly show up and demand to be acknowledged because they think they have talent. It’s not that easy. One must do the hard work of practicing continually for improving ideas because creativity creates new ideas, energy and momentum.Perhaps another way to say this is that creativity allows us to take advantage of opportunities.

Therefore the job doesn't end by just capturing the thoughts from the right brain but it needs to constantly polish and shape those thoughts with the left brain to become a productive outcome without ignoring the fact that the basic raw material in this would be the thoughts from the right brain


For Example:-

With respect to making a product for business house requires to:

• Come up with a great idea
• Converting the idea into innovation (that can be monetized)
• Develop a proposal
• Finding a client
• Selling the proposal
• Secure contract
• Developing the product
• Implementing it to use

The above steps are not that easy. This all requires significant effort. 

Conclusion
In my subsequent posts, you will be having visual images which will provoke you to think creatively and differently that allows you to become a kid again and reawakening the ability to be creative and search for more than one right solution.

If you are a true creative, the work won’t scare you. Embrace it. There really aren’t any shortcuts, despite what you may hear. The only thing standing between you and your dream is hard work and persistence.