CHAPTER 5

CHAPTER 5

PLAY IS FRIVOLOUS

ByCraig Joiner & Chanterelle Davis

WHEN DO YOU GET YOUR IDEAS?

While you are doing work? Responding to questions? During physical exercise? Late at night? While in the company of others? Or while driving?The answers to this question can

be categorized into two groups: Necessity and play

NECESSITYMost people whose ideas are a result of

necessity get them when faced with a problem, need, or deadline...

In other words NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF

INVENTION

PLAY Other people get their ideas as a result

of play, joking around, being with friends or when not taking themselves too seriously

In other words “Play is the father of invention”

ALL PLAY AND NO WORK STILL WORKS Some of the most important

inventions and ideas were originally conceived for the purpose of play and later to be found useful.

Take the mobius strip for example. The point of the strip is that it appears to have two sides to it but really it has only one. The strip was thought of as a toy until it was proven useful. Now rubber manufacturers use the design for conveyor belts.

LAUGH AT IT An important part of play is humor. Humor relaxes your mind. When you laugh

at something it allows you to think of it in a more creative way.

In an experiment two groups are formed. One was put in study hall 30 min prior to a test; the other group listened to a stand up comedian 30 min prior to the same test.

When both groups take the same creativity test, the second group usually does better than the first.

NORMAL

CREATIVE

THE CORE OF CREATIVITY

Humor forces you to combine ideas that are usually not associated with each other.

Think about it like this:What do Winnie the Pooh and John the Baptist

have in common? Winnie the Pooh is a fictional bear that was

created by a poet. Whereas John the Baptist is a Jewish prophet who baptized Jesus. If you look differently, you’ll see the answer is they both have the same middle name.

What humor does is it enters your mind into a state of the unexpected. It allows you to look deeper into an idea which inspires you to create your own

RULE BENDING CREATIVITY You may not know it but when you are

bending a rule you are being creative. Rule bending is a humorous skill that

allows you to search deeper into something and find or create a way around it without breaking it.

A more specific way of categorizing this skill is a loophole

There are some things that are so serious that you have to laugh at them.

Some people can get so tied up into one of their ideas that they stop being creative.

They take that one idea and put it on a pedestal. It’s really hard to be creative when you have that big of an EGO for one idea.

Its good to acknowledge your ideas, but just simmer down a little.

HAVE FUN Fun is one of the most powerful

motivators around. People who are in a more fun working

environment produce better than those is a routine environment.

When people enjoy what they do they will work more enthusiastically and try to help out with new ideas.

Enthusiasm comes from the Greek word “enthousiasmos” meaning “the God within you”

TESTING YOUR CREATIVITY SKILLZ John Roe is now the proud papa of a

bouncing 8 lb. 3 oz baby boy! Mama and baby are doing fine and resting comfortably at St. Joes

NAME THE BABY CONTEST!!!! Get out side of the box Think of the most creative name for the

baby Add Roe as the last name Agree on the most creative name in the

class Compare the name to the rest of the

names. Does it belong up here????

Zor Roe Henry David Thor Roe Scissor Roe A Long Hoadto Roe Phar Roe Wis Key Roe Wheel Bar Roe kye Roe Fidel Cast Roe Beg Steelerbar Roe Agnew Spear Roe Getcher Ducksina Roe Clarence Dar Roe Broken Air Roe Bone Mare Roe Kilimanja Roe

Sagua Roe Maha Gony Roe Mike Roe Velk Roe Edin Bur Roe Jeth Roe A Tennisp Roe Figer Roe Edward Armour Roe Af Roe Merrill Lynmon Roe Yermy Hee Roe Meist Roe Skid Roe

THE MOST CREATIVE WERE

Marymaryquitecontraryhowdoesyourgarden G. Roe

Withsilverbelllscockleshellsandprettymaidsallina Roe

GREAT EXAMPLE! Being creative can always result in

success Names are a great example of creativity

Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta

That sounds like a name that you wouldn’t name your child.

Its too long. The first three names are first names. And the last name just sound weird.

So… Stefani isn't as weird as the names from the name the baby contest but I don’t think you would have though of it.

Stefani is a now very famous singer how ever with an even weirder name.

And that name would be…………..

LADY GAGA

GO ahead and be whacky.Get into a crazy frame of mindand ask what's funny about what you’re

doing

Its not as important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things.

The monkey wears an expression of seriousness that would do credit to any great scholar.

But the monkey is serious because it itches.