Ideas rule the World- Albert Einstein.
" If someone feels that they had never made a mistake in their life, then it means that they had never tried a new thing in their life - Albert Einstein.
I will not say I failed 1000 times, I will say that I discovered 1000 ways that can cause failure - Thomas Alva Edison.
Being an inventor myself, I have the following advice.
1. Never discuss in detail with others on an idea which you think has potential to be a breakthrough. The first reaction with most is to throw cold water on your idea and other smart guys give you other suggestions for improvement (which are not practical) so that you will be carried away by their suggestions and deviate from your original thinking. Then they will pursue your idea to your dismay.
2. Many a time the person with a creative idea is supreme but not the evaluators (Unless the evaluators are unbiased and honest).
3. Creative person should always take it for granted that criticicism,legpulling is part of life. It is foolish to expect that everybody respects your creative idea. Jealousy is the birthright of many. As Einstein put it, ENTHUSIASM IS THE KEYNOTE TO SUCCESS.
4. Always keep a pen and small book by your bedside, in bath room etc.. Eureka ideas are rare and suddenly come.
5. Publish in reputed journals/newsletters salient features of your creative ideas (keeping the main thing as secret). Because when once people see something in Black and White,they think twice before to copy it.
Finally, DISCOVER INENTION.
Dr.A.Jagadeesh
Director
Nayudamma Centre for Development Alternatives
Nellore (AP), India
E-mail: anumakonda.jagadeesh@gmail.com
Blog: www.drjagadeeshncda.blogspot.com
Most people view creativity as an asset. So why do we reject creative ideas so often in real life?
Researchers sought to understand this phenomenon and found that the uncertainty of creativity often led to the rejection of such ideas — even when creativity itself is a stated goal.
To find out, Cornell University professor Jack Goncalo, University of Pennsylvania professor Jennifer Mueller and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill’s Shimul Melwani put participants through a series of mental association tests that revealed their reactions to certain words and situations, such as winning a lottery.
They found that study participants associated creative ideas with negative words — such as “vomit,” “poison” and “agony” — even when they said outright that they favored creativity.
Simply, there was a subtle bias against creativity that favored practicality. And it was motivated by a need to achieve certainty, even in the face of novel new products, such as a nanotechnology-infused running shoe (said to better cool the foot and reduce blisters) used during the study.
The researchers write:
Uncertainty also makes us less able to recognize creativity, perhaps when we need it most. Revealing the existence and nature of a bias against creativity can help explain why people might reject creative ideas and stifle scientific advancements, even in the face of strong intentions to the contrary. … The field of creativity may need to shift its current focus from identifying how to generate more creative ideas to identify how to help innovative institutions recognize and accept creativity.
Their results will be published in an upcoming issue of the journal Psychological Science, but you can read the entire paper here.
[via Forbes; Lifehacker]
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