Generating Remarkable Ideas

Victor Fatanmi - Partner and CEO at FourthCanvas shares on Generating Remarkable Ideas

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1. Generating Remarkable Ideas Victor Fatanmi
3. VS
4. Hold the thought First, let’s talk about how to SURELY Generate Remarkable Ideas We will be back
5. A Process or a lifestyle?
6. is built on an attempt to study and identify how ideas came, so we can replicate them. The Process
7. The Thomas Edisons.. The Michael Faradays.. The John Harvey Kelloggs... Who are the ‘them’?
8. Oh wait... Kelloggs?
9. Was it invented by a process or “process” today is based on learnings from such innovations? Yes, back to Cornflakes
10. Mr. Kellogg was boiling wheat to make dough, left it for far too long, and boom, flakes. Yes, you guessed right!
12. So you mean?
13. puts you in the place for genius, but the process is not the ‘genius’, and... AThe Process...
14. ..the ‘genius’ is not a talent or spirit B And guess what.
15. an attitude based on a set of traits that you can intentionally nurture CThe Genius is...
16. So let’s talk about traits, baby...
17. Intellectual Humility 1 The state of knowing that even though you can sometimes come up with the best ideas, you are also FIRMLY convinced that you are at every point in time, ignorant of something and know too little about many others.
18. Eyes and mind of a child 2 We imagined boundlessly as kids because we had no “EXPERIENCE” of what was impossible. Innovations come from stepping back, as a habit, to take that perspective. What if I abandoned my experience for a minute and embraced the optimism of a child?
19. Embracing errors 3 One of the few lines that stayed with me from my lessons in Secondary School: “Every mistake in art is a design”. My fine art teacher repeated that over and over. Refer back to Kellogs’ story.
20. No “supposed to be”s 4 It is hard to smile and watch when someone goes the “supposed ENTIRELY wrong direction” when you are attached to how things are “supposed” to be. In that patience, you find that people make a highway out of the footpath.
21. Absence of fear of shame 5 The ability to always return to the truth of who we are—just 1 of 7 Billion humans, hence reducing the need to keep your “reputation”. So, you say your mind and try new things, knowing the worst is that you are embarrassed, but you know, “who am I to be embarrassed?”
22. The future over the past 6 Attaching to the past and how things were done can be a great hindrance to creativity and innovation. There is always more ahead and while the past matters for understanding, it helps to be welcoming to the idea of a future with no similarities to the past.
23. Appreciation 7 Sometimes, existing ideas give back to the new ones but this only happens in the absence of hostility. You need to open up to other great ideas and see how they sometimes inspire you to more and sometimes, bigger ones.
24. Generosity 8 Good ideas come from a very open mindset and willingness to give effort despite the possibility of not getting the credits. One of the worst things to do is to hoard ideas for the fear of it been stolen. Ideas can be stolen but the minds that come up with them can’t.
34. Process tries to break it down and process is good. Research and auditing gives you perspective. Brainstorming sessions help you focus on finding it.
35. But what matters more...
36. Is how you look at the everyday things.
37. Listening ears/ open eyes 9
38. If there is a genius spirit that flies around like an angel, it is always trying to speak to us, through the words of other people—regardless of their status— (but “yeah I get where she is going”), as well as through the noise of Danfo conductors, the frustrating Mosquito that choose your ear as area of concentration, and like in the story of The Wright Brothers inventing the aeroplane, the gentle wings of the bird above.
39. Any Question of the day? Thank You!