Chapter 3 By Brooke Allen Kyra Fulton and Corina McBride Exercise 1 Painted Eggs Fireworks Champagne Candy Canes Shamrocks JackOlanterns What do you notice in this list Patterns ID: 594738
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Follow the Rules Chapter 3
By
Brooke Allen, Kyra Fulton,
and
Corina
McBrideSlide2
Exercise 1
Painted Eggs
Fireworks
Champagne
Candy Canes
Shamrocks
Jack-O-lanterns
What do you notice in this list
?Slide3
Patterns!!!!!
The brain subconsciously recognizes patterns, sequences, cycles, shapes, processes, similarities, and probabilities.
Basicall,y
the mind looks at a group of
items
and immediately recognizes a pattern.
Patterns give us the power to understand the world, and as a
consequence,
they RULE our thinking-and become our rules.Slide4
Challenging the Rules“
Every
act of creation is first of all an act of
destruction”
Pablo Picasso
Creative thinking
inv
olves
playing with what we know!
In the winter of 333 B.C, the Macedonian
G
eneral, Alexander,
and his army arrive in the Asian city of Gordian to take up winter quarters. While there, Alexander hears about the legend surrounding the town’s famous
knot,
the Gordian knot. A prophecy states that whoever is able to untie this strangely complicated knot
,
will become king of Asia. This story intrigues Alexander, and he asks to be taken to the knot so that he can attempt to untie it. He studies the knot for a bit, but after fruitless attempts to find the rope’s end, he is stymied. “How can I unfasten the knot?” he asks himself.
He
then gets an idea!
What might his idea be?
Slide5Slide6
Rules
Think about
it:
almost every advance in
history
comes from breaking the rules.
Breaking the rules turns unexpected experiences into creative inventions.Slide7
Follow the Rules
If you don’t ask “why this?” often enough,
somebody
will ask, “why you?”
Why do people treat matters and situations as a closed box with a set of rules
they h
ave
to follow?
Why not open the box and solve the problem with your own set of unique rules?
Before
the1920s
the breast stroke was preformed by pulling both arms together underwater, resurfacing and starting over. The stroke was usually interpreted as an under water
recovery, but
when some one did it out of the water it was
faster,
creating the butterfly.Bing!!! By breaking the nation’s idea of a rule, a new stroke was created allowing swimmers to swim faster!!!!Slide8
What rules can we break?
The creative thinker is constantly changing the
rules
When you have so many rules mixed in with your thinking, after a while the rules turn into blind assumptions
It is difficult to be creative if you’re following blind assumptions!
So start now, by creating your own “open box
rules,”
and use them to be innovative!Slide9
Actually Following the Rules
To maintain order you still have to follow some rules such as :
Not killing anyone, paying your bills, going to bed on time, going to school, not getting into fights, respecting your elders, no bombing the White House,
not
doing drugs, not lying, listening to your parents, driving safely, staying out of the hospital, being
quiet
while in the library, not hurting anyone, eating your veggies, ……..Slide10
Recap
So actually the whole not following the rules
concept
only applies to
things
such as how you
think
and how you view things!
Basically this is about perspective, how you view things, and expanding your horizons by destroying what you already know about rules.
What I mean by destroying what you already know, is to break the mental lock that keeps telling you to think about things only as you know them.Slide11
.The Aslan
Phenomenon
1. We make rules based on reasons that make a lot of sense.
2. We follow these rules.
3.Time passes, and things change
4. The original reasons for the creation of these rules may no longer exist, but because the rules are still in place, we continue to follow them
Q W E R T Y U I O P exampleSlide12
Quiz show!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1. What is wrong with patterns?
2. How did Alexander untie the Gordian knot?
3.What does every advance in history come from?
4. Who is constantly changing the rules?
5. What rules do we not want you to break?
6.What is perspective?
7. Why were the top row of letters
on
typewriters
changed?
8. What was your favorite part?