Mel’s Ten Tips on Creative Thinking (with Dr. Alon Amit and Hagai Cohen)

BY: Mel Rosenberg

Dr. Alon Amit, Hagai Cohen and I have been teaching workshops on Creative Thinking for years. And this is all we have to show for it! Seriously, the 10 tips here summarize our thoughts about creative thinking and how it can become part of your entrepreneurial lives. Start now!!

Thinking Between Boxes

By: Mel Rosenberg

Creative thinking involves thinking between boxes, not outside of them. Jumping between two frames of thought, two states of mind, two categories, two things, two words, two disciplines, two ideas that seem to have absolutely nothing to do with each other. Dichotomous. Incompatible. The creativity begins when you start to glue them together anyway. Sometimes the connection is an invention that can be patented. Often the connection is fun and hilarious.

And here is the video.

Between Boxes At Shenkar College

By: Mel Rosenberg

Most people think that creativity involves “Thinking Outside the Box”. If you Google it, you get over 1,300,000 search results. Apparently a lot of people believe in it. This is a lecture I gave at Shenkar College on thinking between boxes and how it changed my life.

H-Farm: Creating An Environment For The Next Generation Of Entrepreneurs

By: Mel Rosenberg

I recently spent a few marvellous days in Maurizio and Riccardo’s human farm, the H-farm, as part of “Kinnernet Italia”. Yesterday I met Maurizio again in Tel Aviv for a frank discussion about how to farm the technological wiz kids of the future.

In Ten Years Or Less – Your Personal VAE (Virtual Alter Ego)

By: Mel Rosenberg

We asked our students at Shenkar College to predict the future. Here is my prediction. Maybe it’s already here and I just haven’t found mine yet.

Zell Tells Mel what Creativity is

By: Mel Rosenberg

I asked the Zell 2015 to tell me what, in their opinion, creativity is. The answers were so interesting and varied that I created a little book.

Zellicious – Introduction to Creative Thinking

By: Mel Rosenberg

Are you observant? Do you take things for granted? Do you question everything?

What is 48create? – with Dr. Alon Amit

By: Mel Rosenberg

Ten years ago Dr. Alon Amit and I created 48create, a simple method for coming up with amazing and wacky ideas. Perfect for engendering creativity among students. It’s been tested all over the world with great success. Now you can try it too!!! Access our fledgling website www.48create.com. Enjoy!

The BirdBrain Un-conference

By: Mel Rosenberg

Birdbrain is an un-conference. In an un-conference the organizers do not select speakers. Participants can come to the white board in the morning, and add their presentation.

When There is no Correct Answer – A Lesson in Creativity

By: Elad Segev אלעד שגב

Odelia Kohn Oppenheim and Elad Segev conducted a simple exercise in creativity with a third grade class. They asked them to “correctly complete” a picture when presented with a triangle. They drew houses. When they asked them just to complete the drawing, they let their imagination take flight.

How to define Creativity?

By:Galorian

So you think you can better define CREATIVITY?

So what is Creativity? There are many ways we can define creativity, so what is it exactly? It can be telling a good joke; Writing a book; Painting; Composing a nice melody; Inventing; and also being a creative doctor, a creative lawyer, a creative engineer and also a creative parent. 

Mel’s Ten Tips – Entrepreneurship, Israel Style

By: Mel Rosenberg

How to create a start up culture, Israeli Style! Here I share some of my ideas about the aspects of Israeli culture that engender a spirit of innovation and entrepreneurial spirit. You don’t agree with me? You must be an Israeli!

The Juggling Act of Creativity

By: Mel Rosenberg

If creativity is a juggling act, what are we juggling? Our childish abilities to dream, ask, imagine, posit, observe, hypothesize with our adult abilities to solve problem, test hypotheses, answer a question. Why don’t these abilities work together more often then?

Dog Tales – Conversations with an Insightful Canine

By: Mel Rosenberg

When dogs can sing and talk and speak their minds, this is what happens. Thanks Miki Peled for your help!!! This book is free, funny and insightful. You don’t have to be a dog lover or Jewish to like it. If you do like it, please either kiss a dog on the lips, or share. I did.

Thinking Between Boxes at Shenkar College

By: Mel Rosenberg

Most people think that creativity involves “Thinking Outside the Box”.

If you Google it, you get over 1,300,000 search results.

Apparently a lot of people believe in it.

Not Exactly as Planned

By: Mel Rosenberg

This book summarizes many of my failures and almost successes on the way to becoming a wacky scientist, frustrated musician, prolific but not-yet-discovered writer and inventor of things.

Thank you for reading this book!

If you like it, you might also want to read:

How to Create Books on Ourboox – Resource Catalogue

Read more about me and see ALL my books on Ourboox (I have many)

Or even better, create a book of your own!!!

Here is a tutorial to help you get started on your own voyage as an Ourboox contributor!!

And finally, you can always write me at [email protected]