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The impact of opportunity cost on personal and professional life
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Understanding the concept of opportunity cost
Problem With Creativity
Creativity is the main engine of innovation and entrepreneurship, and a major driver of resilience. The current foundation of creativity training is the technique known as divergent thinking.
But there’s a problem: Research has shown it to be at best inadequate and at worst counterproductive. The training doesn’t work.
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Exercise 2: Instead of brainstorming, think counterfactually
Think of a new competitor in your market — an existing startup, maybe, or an established company that might enter your lane, or some kind of organization that you anticipate might emerge in the future.
Identify one highly anomalous feature of the competitor — and now imagine that you are t...
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Meet the moment process (Step 2)
For step two, assess your current operational environment in the scale of 1-10.
Is it stable? Or volatile? Certain? Or uncertain?
If it’s high in stability and certainty, go with an option ranked 9 or 10.
If it’s moderate, go with a 7 or 8.
If it’s low, go with a 6 or 4...
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Exercise 1: To Foster Originality
Have everyone anonymously write down something they like but are afraid to admit to the group.
Then share the answers, maintaining anonymity.
When each answer is shared, ask everyone to take two minutes to imagine that they like the same thing
Silently plan a way to incorporat...
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Exercise 3: Meet the moment process (Step 1)
- For step one, take each of your team’s newly imagined options and rank it on the scale of 1 - 10. Options ranked at the bottom (0–2) are low in creativity and low in innovation potential. Options at the top (8–10) are moderate-to-low in creativity but high in innovation potential. Options in...
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These new methods for increasing creativity might seem weird, implausible, and even flatly wrong. But that’s exactly how it should be.
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Creativity is the skill of combining hard skill with the problem solving ability when facing certain limitations
Class activity to teach creativity for students should combine critical thinking & problem solving skills with freedom of expression & independent thought.
A. Designs experiences to practice critical thinking and problem-solving skills
B. Designs instruction to allow fo...
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