seven habits of creative individuals
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Seven Habits of Highly Creative Individuals
Dr. Pavan Soni
Innovation Evangelist and Founder
Inflexion Point Consulting
www.InflexionPoint.net
About Dr. Pavan Soni• PhD from IIM Bangalore (Corporate Strategy & Policy)
• Former Innovation Evangelist at Wipro (6 years)
• Only Indian to be shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey
Business Book of the Year Award- 2016
• Bachelor of Engineering- MBM Engineering College Jodhpur (Branch
Topper) and PGDIE- NITIE Mumbai
• Recipient of ‘On-the-Job Achiever Award’- Lakshya- CII Mumbai in
2007 for the work on Innovation
• Associated with ASSOCHEM, CII, NASSCOM, Bangalore Chamber of
Industry and Commerce, and Karnataka Knowledge Commission
• Columnist at YourStory, and People Matters
• Speaker at TEDx BITS Goa, SIBM Pune and
HewlettPackardBangalore
• Coach at NSRCEL of IIM Bangalore and Founder Institute
• Mentor at UpGrad, Institute of Product Leadership, NumberNagar,
and Budli
• Advisory Board member at Utilis Capital READING | WRITING | TEACHING | COACHING
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Corporate clients (indicative )
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The vocabulary
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Creativity Novelty Utility +=
Level of operation= Individual or Teams
Innovation New concept Commercialization +=
Level of operation= Organization
Sources of creativity
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The zone of ‘Flow’
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Synaptic joints in human brain
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Transformation of the brain
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Development of mental abilities
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Brain, with aging
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The Human Mind
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The Medici Effect
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Multiple affiliations
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Taking half-chances
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The opposable mind
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Impact of formal education
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Latent inhibitions
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IQ and creativity:
Latent inhibitions
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Variance, not mean centric
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Creativity
Taking hobbies seriously
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Intuitive experiments
The ugly prototype
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IDEO Tec box
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Time off for ‘experiments’
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Cultivating humour
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Habits of Highly Creative Individuals
Curiosity Opposable mind Low latent inhibitions
Experimentative
Taking hobbies seriously
Honing multiple affiliations
Humorous
Seven Habits of Highly Creative Individuals
Dr. Pavan Soni
Innovation Evangelist and Founder
Inflexion Point Consulting
www.InflexionPoint.net