Sunday, February 1, 2015

Nurture Creativity: Look for Unusual Combinations (Keytar = Guitar + Keyboard)


There is only one way in which a person acquires a new idea:  by the combination or association of two or more ideas he already has into a new juxtaposition in such a manner as to discover a relationship among them of which he was not previously aware
(Francis A. Cartier)

Sometimes, the best way to be and to nurture your creativity is to combine things not usually combined. For example, the miner’s cap (flashlight + protective hat), the wheelchair (chair + wheel), the radio clock (obvious!), the iPhone and all of smart phones (alarm clock + mobile phone + camera + video + voice recorder + video games + endless stuffs). These combinations result in invention. Perhaps the most common example of this kind of invention is the recipe. Every time a cook blends different ingredients to make a dish differently, he or she is inventing by combination. Last Christmas, me and my brother we fascinated by Gordon Ramsay's Ultimate Christmas TV series show. Chief Ramsay is a genius and for me personally he is the most creative chief in the world. He is good at combining ingredients and his recipes are superb and yummyly-creative!

Look for unusual combinations. Let me gives another example. Let says there is a problem (maybe it’s true) in the increasing cost of our prison system. The Prison Department of Malaysia might well consider combining prisons with factories. The idea is, having convicts work for private industry behind bars and the money that they earned collectively can be used to cover the cost and to maintain prison’s facilities (or the government can help the convicts to start a fresh by allowing them to reimburse their wages once they are free. Maybe a bad idea, but this is just an idea though). Combine the unusual. In chemistry class, I learned that water, H2O, is the combination of two hydrogen atoms and one atom of oxygen. In my art class, I learned that blue plus yellow will creates green colour. In my geography class, I learned that my country Malaysia is the combinations of peninsular Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak.  

Where do good new ideas come from?” asked Nicholas Negroponte. “That’s simple – from differences. Creativity come from unlikely juxtapositions.” Arthur Koestler agreed. He wrote in his book The Act of Creation: “the thesis that creative originality does not mean creating or originating a system of ideas out of nothing but rather out of a combination of well-established patterns of thought – by a process of cross-fertilization.” He further explains, “The creative act… uncovers, selects, reshuffles, combines, synthesizes already existing facts, ideas, faculties, skills.”

Look for unusual combinations
Lord, Give Us Today Our Daily Idea(s)

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