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Technique 3 - Expand Your Span of Relevance

? Technology transfer from one field to another, usually with some degree of alteration and adaptation, is one way in which you can make a creative contribution.
? You may be familiar with a body of knowledge or technical capability unknown to others in your field because you have worked in more than one industry. Or it may come about as a result of your travels to other countries.
? People with a narrow span of relevance are thinking within the boundaries of their own industry. Jump over the wall! Develop a wide span of relevance, for there are connections between every other industry in the world and yours – only if you could see them.
? It depend on your ‘power to connect the seemingly unconnected’, or at least the things that hitherto have not been brought together in a new and interesting relation.

It is the function of creative people to perceive the relations between thoughts, or things or forms of expression that may seem utterly different, and to combine them into some new forms – the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.
Quotation by William Plomer

Technique 4 - Practise Serendipity

? Serendipity means finding valuable and agreeable ideas or things – or people – when you are not consciously seeking them.
? You are more likely to be serendipitous if you have a wide span of attention and a broad range of interests.
? Being over-organized, planning your life down to the last minute like a control freak, is inimical to creativity. For chaos often breeds ideas. As A A Milne said: ‘One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.’
? Developing your capacity for creative thinking will bring you rewards, but they may not be the ones you expect now.
? A creative thinker needs to be adventurous and open-minded like a resourceful explorer.
? Sometimes in life you never quite know what you are looking for until you find it.

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