Core

What is your core?

Who am I?
What do I value?
What am I passionate about?
What do I believe in?

Divergence

Two roads diverged in a wood,
and I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference
- Robert Frost

The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done - men who are creative, inventive, and discovers - Jean Piaget

Innovation 3.0

Innovation 1.0 = Invention + Products
Innovation 2.0 = Technology + Web
Innovation 3.0 = Mindset + Culture

Water

We can never step in the same river twice - Heraclitus.
Each moment in life is also unique. We cannot recreate the same moment.

Hand Railing for a Child

A well conceived design.
I captured this image in Singapore. It is a picture of a staircase at an overhead bridge with two hand railings. The lower one is for children. Design begins with a heart or empathy, not technology.

What is creativity and innovation?

The answer would depend a lot on who you talk to.
Many equate creativity with art while innovation with an invention, product or R&D. 3M, one of the world's serial innovator defined it as "New Ideas - plus action or implementation - which results in an improvement, gain or profit".

Conception

What is the meaning of conception?

To have an insight
To see something new
To understand something new
To see a new problem
To see a new question
To see a new connection
To see a new obstacles
To see a new challenge

Go Visual

Storytelling

When facts become so widely available and instantly accessible, each one becomes less valuable. What begins to matter more is the ability to place these facts in context and to deliver them with emotional impact - Daniel H. Pink, A whole New Mind.

Humans are not ideally set up to understand logic; they are ideally set up to understand stories - Roger C. Schank

Pictures

Words are but pictures of our thoughts - John Dryden

A soul cannot think without a picture - Aristotle

Metaphors

According to Charles J. Palus and David M. Horth in The Leader's Edge, metaphor is a technique of explaining one thing in terms of another and is superb way to create new ideas and understanding.


Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art - Twyla Tharp