World Creativity and Innovation Week: 15 – 21 April
Posted on: 17 Apr 2012
Written by: bob
Leonardo da Vinci was born in Florence on 15 April 1452 and since 2002 a group of people have used this anniversary to promote an event to encourage us all to create a better future by thinking and acting more creatively. Their website is full of suggestions about how to be innovative. I attach below a list of actions which they imply contribute to the Innovative Mindset.
- Make the box bigger, or better, imagine there is no box
- Question what hasn’t been asked
- Make new connections
- Relate the unrelated
- Connect emotions with thoughts, actions, values and beliefs
- Appreciate restlessness as a signal for a chance to do something differently
- Increase satisfaction, meet yours and people’s needs in new ways
- Question the status quo
- Create more desirable futures
- Let the past be a guide post, not a hitching post
- Be open to experiment
- Adopt a ‘let’s learn from our mistakes’ attitude
- Realize that the first idea is a rough draft, open to refinement
- Keep your sense of humour
- Give yourself new experiences
- Learn something new
- Find out what troubles confuses others, then find new ways to ease their pain
We try to do all these things at Robertson Languages, and what better way is there to put them in action than by using another language?
