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conversations.value: What could be a title for a story about Rod, Along with the genre: Self-Help?
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conversations.value: A title for this story could be 'The Art of Creative Thinking'
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conversations.value: Give me the first five paragraphs for this story.. Start with the sentence 'The Art of Creative Thinking
  Let go of the image of art as instant masterpiece'.
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conversations.value: The Art of Creative Thinking
  Let go of the image of art as instant masterpiece. Instead, be prepared to constantly rethink and revise.
  More? Meet a quartet that exemplifies the merits of working hard to make it look easy here. Less? Cut it out here.
  The future belongs to the curious. Curiosity makes us come alive; it fills us with wonder and the urge to discover hidden worlds. Curiosity is the engine of achievement. It's what drives us to keep questioning, keep discovering and continuing to break new ground. As Einstein famously said, "I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."
  Curious people search for the reality behind the façade, for what's truly going on behind the scenes. They ask difficult questions. Albert Einstein explained further, "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day." Cultivate your curiosity and you will constantly refresh your perspective.
  Sometimes it's useful to put your ego in a box under the bed. There is freedom in being nobody. Working under another name will free you of others' expectations and, most importantly, free you of your own.
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conversations.value: Give me five more paragraphs.
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conversations.value: Innovative companies like Danish hearing-aid producer Oticon appreciate the benefits of cross-pollination of ideas. They discovered that spontaneous meetings were taking place on stairwells in their offices. Employees from different floors were exchanging ideas and information. Oticon widened the stairs to encourage these multidisciplinary discussions. Nokia encouraged their staff to eat lunch in their cafeterias rather than at their desks or outside the office. Sharing diverse ideas leads to bold new solutions.
  Find out how Robert Zimmerman used a similar approach to turn himself into the world's most popular singer-songwriter here. Or meet another great thinker who refused to be constrained by the limits of his field—and made us all richer in the process here.
  Many of Andy Warhol's paintings started out as a joke. He produced a series of silk-screen paintings of dollar bills in rows and columns: a wry joke about the value of art. Collectors paid millions of dollars for a few dollars.
  Creativity is about producing the unexpected and seeing things from a new perspective. Humor can be instrumental in shifting that expectation.
  We often find ourselves feeling anxious, busy and overwhelmed at work. Rather than being weighed down by a serious mindset, what we really need is humor. Humor is a key that opens the door to counterintuitive and subversive thinking. If you've reached an impasse and are feeling stuck, a good joke can lead you to a fresh perspective and spark new insight.
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conversations.value: Give me the last five paragraphs.
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conversations.value: It's hard to be creative without being solitary now and then. The creative people I've known who work a lot with people—choreographers, theater directors, company officers—all need a surprisingly high amount of solitude. Space to think. Sit in a room and let your thoughts wander. Start with a minute, and then build up to ten, then longer. This is the opposite of meditating: you're not trying to empty your mind of thoughts; you're trying to fill it up. Ideas will start to creep into your mind. Now you're not alone, you have friends. Cultivate them.
  Many of the creative people we've looked at have been keenly observant. They've noticed something others had missed. While playing with his children in a playground, Walt Disney noticed how many bored parents there were sitting around. "Why isn't there any entertainment here for the parents?" he wondered. He had the idea for Disneyland. Go to a public space and write down twenty observations of people. Study them. What problem are they presenting that no one has heard?
  Mozart renamed himself almost every week, all his life. He was baptized Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, but he generally referred to himself as Amade. When he married, he changed his name to Adam, the first man, as a way to declare himself reborn. He constantly altered his name as a way to experiment with different identities. Think of ten new names for yourself. Are they a statement of your beliefs? What do they tell people about you?
  Gather together a few objects, maybe a pair of scissors, a roll of tape, a stapler—anything handy. Now play with possible combinations. Move them around. See how they might fit together. Eventually they will form a combination that seems right or feels inevitable. You may have invented a new tool, or a work of art—and a new way of seeing.
  Rod Judkins is an artist, writer, and lecturer. A graduate of the Royal College of Art whose paintings have been included in numerous exhibitions, he has lectured on creative thinking at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London, for more than fifteen years. His workshops and lectures demonstrate how creative thinking can energize and improve the work of individuals and organizations in any field.
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conversations.value: Delete the last sentence.
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: It's hard to be creative without being solitary now and then. The creative people I've known who work a lot with people—choreographers, theater directors, company officers—all need a surprisingly high amount of solitude. Space to think. Sit in a room and let your thoughts wander. Start with a minute, and then build up to ten, then longer. This is the opposite of meditating: you're not trying to empty your mind of thoughts; you're trying to fill it up. Ideas will start to creep into your mind. Now you're not alone, you have friends. Cultivate them.
  Many of the creative people we've looked at have been keenly observant. They've noticed something others had missed. While playing with his children in a playground, Walt Disney noticed how many bored parents there were sitting around. "Why isn't there any entertainment here for the parents?" he wondered. He had the idea for Disneyland. Go to a public space and write down twenty observations of people. Study them. What problem are they presenting that no one has heard?
  Mozart renamed himself almost every week, all his life. He was baptized Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, but he generally referred to himself as Amade. When he married, he changed his name to Adam, the first man, as a way to declare himself reborn. He constantly altered his name as a way to experiment with different identities. Think of ten new names for yourself. Are they a statement of your beliefs? What do they tell people about you?
  Gather together a few objects, maybe a pair of scissors, a roll of tape, a stapler—anything handy. Now play with possible combinations. Move them around. See how they might fit together. Eventually they will form a combination that seems right or feels inevitable. You may have invented a new tool, or a work of art—and a new way of seeing.
  Rod Judkins is an artist, writer, and lecturer. A graduate of the Royal College of Art whose paintings have been included in numerous exhibitions, he has lectured on creative thinking at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London, for more than fifteen years.