"You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him discover it within himself." - Galileo Galilei
Creativity is the ability to find solutions to problems differently and with added value. Creativity is thinking about perception, its using thought as a tool to be more fluid and flexible. The purpose of creativity is to change or to flow with change. Creativity is therefore heretic, it's disruptive, it changes assumptions, it kicks in doors, it faces fear and it destroys conformity.
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Sun Tzu was a Chinese military general and is foremost known as a strategist who authored The Art of War (around 500BC), an ancient book on military strategy. His principles have been used for war by many legendary warriors, including Japanese Samurai Oda Nobunaga and French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. His principles are today also used by many business strategists.
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“I can foresee who is likely to win or lose.” Sun Tzu
It’s time to get away from the herd, and think for yourself. But having the will to win isn't always the key; you need more to make it in a market that is brutally competitive. You need a direction, a strategy. Strategic advantages will help you do things that others can’t copy and paste into their own systems, services or products. If you've done your research well, people will only be able to see the “brilliant” façade of your true creation.
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Being a leader requires responsibility and determination. It's not the easiest task in the world so there are certain aspects you need to know about what it takes to handle leadership.
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Niccolò Machiavelli was born in Florence on 3 may 1469. He was a persona of the Italian Renaissance and deeply involved in politics. He was an Italian diplomat, political philosopher, and author.
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Hirano Aichi was inspired to become a photographer at the age of twenty, when he snapped a shot with his father's camera of a Shinto shrine. To him the scenery looked more realistic in the finder shone than it did in reality. "I want you to think about the power of one shot. There are a lot of excessive expressions in the synthesis captured by digital photography."
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Influential photographer, Nobuyuki Kobayashi, has been interested in photography since his second year in high school, as he began taking photographs of his trips.
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“Everything popular is wrong.” - Oscar Wilde
Doing what you’re expected to do isn't enough. If you know exactly what to do because everyone else is doing it, you’ll hardly reach any new goals nor dominate your field. Things are constantly changing. Formulas to successes never work as the market is never stagnant. Yet we like to stick to things that are working, and shut our eyes to the changes that are occurring in the market. This becomes a problem as standard expectations promote you to think and act averagely. Far-reaching and across-the-board expectations on the other hand, push you to think creatively!
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"When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course." - Peter Drucker
Things have changed, as Peter Drucker stated: "we are becoming knowledge workers." Organizations are morphing and work positions are changing perpetually. The old habits: "our schools" are no longer effective, they no longer help or prepare students for work life. Originally created by the Germans, right after the beginning of the industrial age, our schools were there to shape people in to good factory workers. This seems very counter-productive for today, but at the same time the big corporations we have exist based on this paradigm. So a big change in the way we school, will not happen by itself and it will not be frictionless. Teachers are forced to follow dead curricula and this force ends up in the students head, who later are to take standardized tests. This is a total "car crash", not to be overly dramatic but this is the opposite of innovation and creativity. We need to let teachers guide their students through their ingenuity. Lets give our teachers the benefit of the doubt and trust their intelligence. Read More...
A vision is what you want an organization or company to be. How you structure your business will be guided by your vision.
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Designer Rie Isono grew up in a surrounding where her mother was very good at sewing, and she loved watching her create tones of things. She can change a colorful cloth into small articles and dresses. I think that this is the reason I’m today interested in creating.
I applied for a job which was announced by the university (Musashino Art University). The first assignment was the design of a clock radio that was supposed to be completed in two weeks. After that, I got employed by Sony.
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Commissioned by the FRAGMENTAL MUSEUM to envision an urban outdoor structure/installation experimenting with the nature of performing art spaces, OFF and EXYZT designed BUFFER SPACE - a large-scale empty room with only the sky as its roof and a technically efficient wire frame scaffolding envelope, which integrates lighting and audio/video systems that sense and respond to the public.
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In a heartbeat, it feels like, has life run past you with no intention of ever slowing down or letting you catch your breath. Indeed, life is so short we don't even notice that time has passed. The literature on how to make most out of one's life is so extensive that it would take several life times to even read the books printed in one year on the subject. But it's not as complicated as we would like to make it out to be. It's one thing: Your Thing.
"Yawn! Another one of those.."
Nope. Because while your thing is what you enjoy, it will never reach its zenith in potential. Unless, of course, it is done efficiently. The point is doing things efficiently and not meerely doing it. Because just "doing what one enjoys" is done by quite a lot of people who never seem to fully reach as far as they could have, had they known. Simply doing what one enjoys is all fine, but it will be incredible only once it is taken to the next level - and all without ever losing grasp of the genuine plesure that came from doing it.
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Fumie Shibata is the establisher of Design Studio S. Since Shibata was a kid, she had always loved to draw images and create things. My inception of design seems to be linked to those days when I enjoyed making clothes for my dolls or picture storybooks stereoscopically. Also, I grew up in a family that owns a textile business with craftsmen. In this creative environment, I felt completely natural to use my mind and create what I felt like creating.
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