Thinking Outside the Box: A Creative Exploration

A program designed to help individuals and teams break free from conventional thinking, foster innovation, and rediscover their creative potential. Inspired by Michele Gianella's TEDx talk, this program provides practical techniques and exercises to cultivate divergent thinking and challenge established norms. This program focuses on long thinking as introduced by Michele Gianella in her TEDx talk.

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Program Modules

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Understanding the Box: Recognizing Limitations

This module explores the concept of 'the box' - the limitations of our existing knowledge, experiences, and assumptions. It emphasizes the importance of recognizing these boundaries before attempting to transcend them. We will explore how these limitations provide a feeling of safeness.

Defining Your Box: Identifying Personal Boundaries

Weekly

A reflective routine to identify personal and professional boundaries, beliefs, and assumptions that shape your thinking. The goal of this routine is to bring the users to define their boundaries in the context of their environment and be aware of the limitation.

“Which box are we talking about? We must have a clear definition, so that we are really talking about something specific.”

reflection
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Divergent Thinking Techniques: Adding Spice

This module provides practical techniques for generating divergent information, including association of ideas, combination of ideas, extraction of principles, and application of those principles to areas where they were never applied before. We need something wrong or something absurd, as indicated by Michele Gianella.

Association of Ideas: Random Word Challenge

Weekly

Practice associating seemingly unrelated concepts to spark new ideas. This routine leverages unpredictability to stimulate novel connections.

“We need a little bit of that divergent information to cross the borders within our minds, from what we know to what we haven't yet thought about.”

reflection
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Evaluating and Implementing New Ideas: Challenging the Environment

This module focuses on assessing the value of new ideas and navigating the challenges of introducing them into an existing environment. Includes advice on how to manage challenges to people around you.

Idea Validation: The Serendipity Mindset

Weekly

Develop a process for validating new ideas and identifying potential applications. Embrace the concept of serendipity, as highlighted in the source material. We have to look for the match between the new idea and our initial drive, our initial focus, or evaluate the idea per se, for its own value and maybe see that that's something that solves another problem, which it was not yours.

“It's difficult to understand the value of something new. First of all, because we don't feel entitled to be inventors.”

reflection