CCT250H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Lateral Thinking, Crowdsourcing, Indulgence
16 Sep 2019
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Cct250 lecture 1: introduction + de bono on creativity & rheingold on net smart" (09-09- Creative thought in the workplace: satisfaction and happiness correlated with how much creative control people have in their jobs, feel like they have purpose, feel accomplished when problems solved, kurt vonnegut: be creative to make life more bearable . Improves our own lives but also improves lives of others by creating media for consumption/entertainment. Mistake = fully justified venture which did not succeed for reasons beyond our control: provocation = something that puts us on different path of thinking, making way for unusual ideas i. e. trigger for thinking outside of the box. New think is old: used by soloman, used by great inventors of history, breaks out of old patterns, deals with generating new ways of looking at things. Logical thinking: creates order out of disorder, however, imposes old order rather than recognizing new one, great for developing ideas but poor for generating new ideas.
