prevent conceptus interruptus: how math can improve your creativity
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Many people use their subconscious to help them come up with ideas. The problem is their ideas fight their way back into their head too soon. In this presentation, you'll learn how to use math to give your subconscious time to do its thing. This presentation is based on a blog I wrote in December 2010.TRANSCRIPT
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Prevent Conceptus Interruptus
How Math Can Improve Your Creativity
By Robert Moss LinkedIn
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You’re creating something new
A movie script
An ad campaign
An app
A website
Or some other creative project
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And using the right side of your brain
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How often have you been told?
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Use your sub-conscious to come up with better ideas
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Stop what you’re working on and do something different
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Take a break
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Take a shower or bath
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Take a walk
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Visit a museum
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Your subconscious will get to work
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Your subconscious will get to work, unless you suffer from
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Conceptus Interruptus
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When what you’re working on pushes its way back into your head before your subconscious has done its job
Conceptus Interruptus
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How to prevent Conceptus Interruptus
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How to prevent Conceptus Interruptus
Give the left side of your brain something else to do
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What does that look like?
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It might look like math
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If you think in words and images
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If you think in words and images, math can be a foreign language
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“But I’m not a math person”
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Perfect! Use math <and the left side of your brain> to keep your right side from getting back to work too soon
“But I’m not a math person”
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Play 24 to prevent Conceptus Interruptus
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Remove all jacks, queens and kings from a deck of cards
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Place four cards from the top, face up
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Calculate “24″ from the numbers on the four cards
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Use a combination of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
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In your head
No calculator
No pencil, no paper
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Start with these
Solution on next page
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Subtract 4 from 10 to get 6
Divide 8 by 2 to get 4
Multiply 6 times 4 to produce 24
To write it as an equation,
(8 / 2) x (10 – 4) = 24
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Here’s another one
Need a hint?
First, subtract 7 from 8
See next page for solution
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Take 7 from 8, that’s 1
Now take that 1 from 9, that’s 8
Then multiply that 8 times the 3 to get 24
Or the whole thing in equation form,
3 x (9 – (8 – 7)) = 24
But there’s more than one solution, see next page
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Here’s another way to get 24
This time take 8 from 9, that’s 1
Now add that 1 to 7 to make 8
Multiply that 8 times 3 to get 24
As an equation, 3 x (7 + (9 – 8)) = 24
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Try it again
This one has several solutions
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Add 6 plus 9 to produce 15
Add that 15 to 10 to get 25
Subtract 1 from 25 to make 24
As an equation, 9 + 6 + 10 – 1 = 24
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Here’s another
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Multiply 3 times 9 to get 27
Subtract 5 from 8, that’s 3
Subtract that 3 from 27 to get 24
As an equation, (3 x 9) – (8 – 5) = 24
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Last one
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Divide 9 by 9, that’s 1
Add that 1 to 2, that’s 3
Multiply that 3 times 8 to produce 24.
As an equation, 8 x (2 + (9 / 9) = 24
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After several rounds
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Take that shower or go for a walk or visit an art museum or just go back to work
After several rounds
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By playing 24 to prevent Conceptus Interruptus
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Your sub-conscious can do its thing
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So when the right side of your brain gets back to work
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It can come up with better creative
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By preventing Conceptus Interruptus
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There’s an app for that
But all you need is a deck of cards…
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And your head
Thank you
Robert Moss LinkedIn
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Photos courtesy of:
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Sembazuru Moleskine book
Mary Margret Brain Illustration
Gabe Austin Pointing finger
B. Furnari Mudra
Nathanael Boehm Stop button
Lawrence Feeding butterfly
Kanaka Menehune Dictionary
SurfGuard Tooth brush
John Liu Eyes
George Hatcher Math equation
Youssef Abdelaal Calculator
Steve Big blue head
Waferboard Coffee
Mary Crandal Bubble bath
Eric Snopel Walk way
Jeffrey Art museum
This presentation is based on a blog I wrote in December 2010
If you’re not familiar with using your subconscious using to come up with ideas, get a copy of “A Technique for Producing Ideas” by James Webb Young
Thank you