Where do ideas come from?
Chintu: Mantu, I want to be creative. What can I do? Mantu: For starters, find an answer to that. What is a creative brain? In loose terms its a brain that can make many ideas. But aren't all brains thinking all the time? coming up with things every instant? Yes, but not all thoughts are usable. Let's look at an individual idea and try to trace where does it come from and how does it come. For that let me ask you a question first. Suppose you have a square and you want to divide it into four equal parts, how will you do it? Pause here, take some time and come up with a solution. Done? Let's proceed. Here are a few solutions to the problem. I hope you got something like this. Here the solution isn't important but the thought process is. Rewind back a little and try to think how did you arrive at the solution? Did you build it or it just popped up? Don't worry if you couldn't figure it out this time, try the following 3 questions and observe how they are coming, i...