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Fear & Creativity “Fear is a wonderful servant but a terrible master”. Hoonar Janu Saurabh Singhal. What is Fear?. “A distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined” Two stages of fear – - Biochemical – “Fight or Flight” response
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Fear & Creativity “Fear is a wonderful servant but a terrible master” HoonarJanu SaurabhSinghal
What is Fear? “A distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined” Two stages of fear – - Biochemical – “Fight or Flight” response - Emotional
Origins of Fear… A Cultural Artifact Children vs Adults People across different eras and cultures Implication: “fear is always of something known” A Primal Human Emotion Hunter-gatherer instinct Fight or flight response Greatest Fear of all – “Fear of Unknown”
Religion, Art, Philosophy, Weapons Fear The “Idea Chain” revisited… Imagination Fear Fear Archimedes Leonardo Da Vinci Creativity Fear Spinoza Innovation & Implementation
Creativity to Innovation… Fears inhibiting innovation: - Fear of failure - Fear of non-acceptance Fear of success A simple test: “Rohit was doing very well and was at the top of his management class…” Ways to deal with it
Using fear…. Channelize fear - Create a fear that there shall be no survival without innovation Remove the fears of all other ways survival is threatened Remove the fear of being different , not getting accepted or hostile reaction by others “An imaginative person may not be creative and a creative person may not be innovative”
