Mind Mapping

The definition of mind mapping is a process of making ideas through visual. It helps a lot when you are brainstorming because not only it is able to elaborate the specific topic deeply but will also able to broaden the ideas by “thinking outside of the box”. To me, mind mapping works really well in my studies and for my career because I have been trained to do mind mapping when I was in foundation when I always ran out of ideas. Try it out, I guarantee it will also work for you.

For more information, read “SIX THINGKING HATS” written by Edward deBono




This is the Dark Side of me

Creating an Image (Bill Gates)

I draw Bill Gate's image this way because:

1) He is Rich
2) Iconic
3) Founder of Microsoft
4) He always ensure good quality of his product

Invention and Innovation + Creativity = AWESOME

What is the item that you have to use everyday to work, study, chat and play?
A computer of course! Have you read anything about computer history, if your answer is NO then let me give you a brief evolution of computer


This is ENIAC, the first computer and it is as big as the entire room!


Then there is Altair 8800, a computer that can put on top of your table but it is kind of boring looking at a big electronic box.


This is APPLE II, one of the 1st generation personal computer with a screen.


Ahh, a beautiful latest generation personal computer.


Its is personal computer that you can bring wherever you want


This is a Personal Digital Assistant or PDA for short which is a palm size computer.

Now you might be thinking "this is it, there is no possible computer smaller than PDA or hand phone" right? You'll be surprise when I show you this




PEN SIZE computer made in Japan. You can see that science and creativity can bring wonders.
AWESOME!!!!

Week 3 Lesson

On week 3, I learned that there are 2 types of creativity and 2 types of creation. As I mentioned before in the previous post, the 2 types of creativity are the big C Creativity and the small c creativity. For the big C Creativity means generates ideas which can have a great impact on the world and make history; on he other hand, the small c creativity which also called novelty can only make ideas which applicable for certain individual or specific group of people.

As for the 2 creation, one is known as invention and the other is innovation. The definition of invention is generation of ideas from existing knowledge like the invention of telephone by Alexander Graham Bell. On the other hand, innovation means making improvement or modification based from an existed idea like the invention of World Wide Web by Tim Berner. Alexander Graham Bell and his prototype telephone

Tim Berner, founder of World Wide Web

What Creativity Can Do?

Hey, check out what creativity can do

See this somewhere before? This is Leonardo da Vinci first sketch of his Flying Machine in his journal. Leonardo is able to sketch this because he is a brilliant artist and engineer. Unfortunately his Flying Machine did not has its first lift off but it was a good try and a great concept too. Hmm.... this look like something similar, can you take a guess? How about this

See, Leonardo's masterpiece WORKS, or at least his ideas. His ideas was carried on by another brilliant engineer to put this concept into good use. This prove that creativity can be evolve by a creative minds to produce another better and more "up to date" creative minds

Creativity also enable to enable us to think differently too. Take this for example


Obviously you see a chair with different color, material and size. What they have in common? Their legs of course which have 4 legs. I remember I heard it somewhere that all chair must have 4 legs in order to be stable and can be sit on safely and if there are one or more legs missing, you won't be able sit properly and might fall over. One day, all of the sudden these chairs are released into the market


Now tell me, how many legs are there for each chair?
I learn that, if we are able to learn the secret formula of creativity, god knows what impossible things we can make to change the thinking of the world.

What Is Creativity

Creativity, it is a simple but yet a very subjective word. In some dictionary it means creation of ideas and some others define it as generation of new ideas or new concept. In tutorial however define it as the generation of new ideas or a new way of doing things. Basically, all sources said that creativity means make new ideas, but still nobody until now is able to grasp the concrete meaning of the word creativity. If you do know the true meaning, then let me ask you this few question:

a) How do you judge a person creative or not?

b) What makes a person creative?

c) How to be creative

d) Are you creative?

So far I can’t answer the question above, but I can tell you why creativity is so important. Look around you, creativity mind of the geniuses has brought us to this age; we are now exiting the modern age and beginning to enter the information age where creative minds grow more rapidly than before (I believe it so). Geniuses such as Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci or even our former Prime Minister Datuk Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohammad who is a creative icon that have shaped the world that was to now. We doesn’t have to be an artist, a scientist or a politician to be creative, a simple citizen like us have an ability to generate ideas and solve problems can already to be consider creative.
LEONARDO DA VINCI ALBERT EINSTEIN DATUK TUN DR. MAHATHIR MOHAMMAD

Speaking of generating ideas, I learn that there is no such things as right or wrong idea or stupid or smart ideas but there is good or bad ideas. You could have come up with an idea, to your point of view it could be an excellent idea but to other perspective, that might be a terrible one. I also understand that there are 2 types creativity, one is Creativity with a big C and the other is creativity with a small c. What the different you might ask? The one with big C means a person with an ability to make an idea that is so great that could change the different way of thinking of the people from nation wide to world wide scale like Leonardo da Vinci or people won the award for Nobel Prize. While for the creativity with small c means an ability to create an idea to solve daily problems or enigma like how to get from point A to point B more efficiently, how to design a product that can catch the attention of the buyers or make an invention that make our life much simpler.