Everyday Creativity

About Pavan SoniFounder of Inflexion Point Consulting Research Fellow at IIM Bangalore (Corporate Strategy & Policy)Only Indian to be shortlisted for FT and McKinsey Award for Best Business Book of the Year 2016 Thrice speaker at TEDxFormer Innovation Evangelist at Wipro (6 years)Innovation workshops for Caf Coffee Day, Capgemini, Dell, Ericsson, Evonik, Future Group, GlaxoSmithKline, Honeywell, Infosys, Mahindra, Shoppers Stop, Tanishq, Tata Steel, Thermax, Titan,, Wipro and World Trade Centre.Talks on innovation at 3M, Bosch, Johnson & Johnson, SAP Labs, SKF, Dell, Ericsson, Northern Trust, Oracle, Philips, Samsung and Xerox,Recipient of On-the-Job Achiever Award- Lakshya- CII Mumbai in 2007 for the work on InnovationRecipient of Innovation Excellence Award at 5th Indira Innovation Summit in 2012Associated with Karnataka Knowledge Commission, Bangalore Chamber of Industry and Commerce and CIIContributed book chapters in three published books on innovation READING | WRITING | TEACHING

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Creativity is the ability to challenge, question and explore. It involves taking risks, playing with ideas, keeping an open mind and making connections where none are obvious.- Victoria and Albert Museum of ChildhoodNovelty Utility

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Divergent Thinking

Synaptic joints in human brain

Source: Adapted fromwww.educarer.org, 2006.5

Evolution of synaptic joints

Source: Corel, JL. The postnatal development of the human cerebral cortex. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; 1975.In the first few years of life, 700 new neural connections are formed every second.6

Development of mental abilities

Source: C.A. Nelson (2000). Credit: Center on the Developing ChildThe brains capacity for change, or plasticity decreases with ageCognitive, emotional, and social capacities are inextricably intertwined throughout the life course.7

Mind of a woman12/15/2016Pavan Soni, Innovation Evangelist8

Source: https://www.quora.com/How-is-it-that-men-and-women-are-of-equal-intelligence-even-though-mens-brains-are-10-larger8

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Great Ideas are born at the Intersection of Disciplines

Linear GrowthDiscovering Intersections I am imagining bringing 100s of people together from different backgrounds and disciplines within a region and have them work together to unleash an explosion of transformational ideas.- Frans JohanssonSource: Medici EffectPavan Soni (www.PavanSoni.com)

9/24/2016Pavan Soni | www.PavanSoni.com |10Introducing variance

Improvisation 12/15/2016Pavan Soni, Innovation Evangelist11

Competition kills creativity 12/15/2016Pavan Soni, Innovation Evangelist12

Taking hobbies seriously Pavan Soni (www.PavanSoni.com)13

Cultivating humourPavan Soni (www.PavanSoni.com)14

Humour and creativity 12/15/2016Pavan Soni, Innovation Evangelist15

Humour- creativity- success12/15/2016Pavan Soni, Innovation Evangelist16

Rob Faust

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Hone multiple affinities 9/24/2016Pavan Soni | www.PavanSoni.com |17

Source: IDEO

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Intersection of disciplines 12/15/2016Pavan Soni, Innovation Evangelist18

Latent inhibitions 12/15/2016Pavan Soni, Innovation Evangelist19

IQ and creativity: Latent inhibitions12/15/2016Pavan Soni, Innovation Evangelist20

http://innovationprinciples.blogspot.in/2011/10/elements-of-creativity-low-li-and-high.html20

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The power of vulnerability

Key takeawaysBrain is plastic, not elastic Take half chancesImprovisation Experiment (thats the fastest way to learn)Latent inhibitions Have a sense of humourHone multiple affiliations The power of vulnerability 22Pavan Soni (www.PavanSoni.com)