How Simple Concept Of Maths Can Make You More "Creative"

I want to share with you what I deduce from my 2 hours meeting with 4 friends (Chee Wah, Joyce, Shee and Fish) in Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur. We were sitting around a small table trying to piece out the agenda for the coming speechcraft project, which we called it the Project Communication Tutorial (PCT). This is conducted for a group of project managers to improve their communication and leadership skills at work.

Something about Chee Wah – I didn't know I could learn so much from him until I've spent that 2 hours with him. Most people knows him as one of the best master of ceremonies in town and someone who is creative and definitely a right-brainer type of person.

But, he showed me his creativity in just a merely 2 hours meeting and the best part, I could tap into his creativity concepts from now on. You wanna know how you could be more creative? Then, just bear with me and read on....

Many friends I know (including myself, hmm) find it difficult to be "creative". This is because we were train to use more of our left brain in school, and almost everything in professional firm taught us to be logical. Then, how in the world, do we, they, our bosses, parents expect us to be "creative"?!? Don't even bother to talk about the whole-brain balance "thingy", to maximise our brain power.

In the meeting, when we are trying to develop a new creative case study for the participants of PCT, Chee Wah ask Shee a question, "What do you have in mind for the case study section?"

Shee replied something about debate for petrol price increases, so on and so forth (smile - I don't wanna bored you with the details of a 2 hours meetings).

Then... Chee Wah asked me, "What do you have in mind for the case study section?" I cracked out something about a survival case study scenario blah, blah, blah....

Chee Wah paused for a couple of seconds (there was total silence). He then responded and came out with a creative survival game with petrol as one of the survival tools. He carefully cross pollinate, mix and match both our thoughts and make up a unique case study!!

Sound simple - this is what I term it the concepts of "addition" by combining two different thoughts, things, events, scenarios, situations, people and brand it to become something creative of your own. Think about it. Many creative stuff out there today... are derived from this powerful concept of "addition" - mixing and matching them together. Here are just a couple of the examples:

1. japanese food + american food = fusion food
2. roller ball concept + fragrance = deodorant
3. shower gel + aromatheraphy = aromatherapy shower gel
4. chicken floss + bread = Breadtalk innovative bread
5. Air conditioner + Air purifier = air purifying conditioner
6. Raisin + normal bread = Raisin bread

Take a deep breath, paused for a while and look around the room. Are there things you could mix and match them together to create the next breakthough ideas? Hhmm... something to ponder about. The fact is, there are many.

There are actually a lot more ideas that you could deduce from the other mathematical concepts such as the concept of "substration", "multiplication" and "division". This could be applied anywhere, anytime at home, office, or your next business venture. I'll share more examples of how to get creative using the other concepts in my next blog. You can visit my blog next time or you could sign up for the 'Sunday Series'

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