Today’s video was instigated by realizing how many cars were parked pretty haphazardly at the hospital when I was visiting my father and thinking about what people were going through as they rushed to the hospital.
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Here’s an on-the-scene report from Big Item Pickup in my neighborhood this past weekend. It provides a wonderful lesson in creative possibilities. Enjoy!
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PBS recently aired a September 2008 performance of George Gershwin’s music featuring the Nashville Symphony. The show’s closing piece was “Rhapsody in Blue,” perhaps Gershwin’s most well-known piece. I’ve enjoyed the song for a long time but never had the opportunity to “see” it performed and videoed to such great effect.
It was incredible to SEE guest soloist Kevin Cole’s performance – his hands were up and down the keyboard in such commanding fashion. In the video excerpt below, you get some sense of the wonder of his performance.
For today’s challenge – while we usually think of listening to music, in this case, being able to watch music was as impressive as the audio experience.
For other sensory experiences you encounter, identify a different dimension to begin to experience them: Maybe listening to a dog being petted or feeling the texture of the ingredients in a home cooked meal? You decide and come to some new senses of your own.
Update Note: Because of Good Friday, there won’t be a post on Friday, April 10.
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From Twitter last night, here’s a video with Tony Buzan, the creator of mind mapping, talking about ways to improve your creative thinking skills. It’s a very worthwhile investment of just over three and a half minutes to learn his perspectives on creativity’s prevalence, whole brain thinking, and growing the speed, originality, and flexibility of your thinking. Check it out!
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The past several weeks I’ve put out a Thursday or Friday tweet requesting topic suggestions for Brainzooming.
One request last weekend was for a discussion on TRIZ, a topic unfamiliar to me. In a very nice gesture, the original requester, Greg Cimmarrusti from Atlanta, agreed to write a guest post on the topic. Greg’s 20-year background includes project management, systems analysis, implementation, and business development within the high tech, manufacturing, real estate, entertainment, and government sectors. His interests include Mind Mapping, Creative Thinking and Organization Techniques.
Greg’s post is based in part on a presentation at the Atlanta Creativity Exchange by Jack Hipple, principal of Innovation-TRIZ.com and an authority on the subject:
What is TRIZ? TRIZ is the Russian acronym for “Theory of Inventive Problem Solving.” Soviet engineer and researcher Genrich Altshuller and his colleagues developed the methodology in 1946 and for the next 40 years improved its design. TRIZ is the science of the study of the patterns of problems and solutions. Millions of patents were analyzed to discover patterns that led to breakthrough solutions to specific problems.
The three primary research processes to create TRIZ were as follows:
Using these known 40 principles (solutions) in new challenges can bring innovative solutions. All innovated creations are purported to be found in the matrix of 40 principles.
One example of TRIZ is the creation of the TWEEL (combination of tire and wheel) and the solution to flat tires. The original tire had an inner tube. Once the inner tube was punctured, the tire was useless until the inner tube was replaced or repaired. This led to the invention of the tubeless tire in use today. Michelin then abstracted this one level up and combined the tire and the wheel. Using a non-inflated tire, the wheel lightly compresses to give a more comfortable ride.
For further information refer to TRIZ40.com, TRIZ-Journal.com, and AITRIZ.org. The matrix of the 40 principles is available for download. There are also general articles on TRIZ and Genrich Altshuller on Wikipedia.com and gizmag.com that provided additional background for this article. — Greg Cimmarrusti
Thanks Greg for sharing TRIZ with us (and based on the fun headline, I may need to hire you to write headlines for Brainzooming)! And as an added treat, here’s a video of Genrich Altshuller teaching TRIZ; you can find more of these on YouTube as well.
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Here’s a quick video from a recent trip back to Western Kansas.
It’s a reflection about how rules and boundaries get imposed, often without any real consideration of whether they help, hurt, or in fact do nothing but waste energy relative to what’s really important.
Go forth and think outside the lines!
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To wrap up the week, here’s a link tweeted by Scott Frederick – an instructive scene from “The Office” if you’d like to see nearly all of the NOs standing in the way of innovation in just over 2 minutes!
Want to be more innovative? It’s simple – do nothing that Michael does. Doesn’t get much easier than that for a Friday!
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