Prasanna

Creativity and Technology

I had this doubt on which way to go, to become a technology expert and solve problems or develop problem solving ability at the first place, then focus on technology for implementation models. But people respect great thinkers and those with creative skills irrespective of their technical accomplishments and I realized why they are right.

Even in one of the hoardings displayed by Sun in Bangalore for recruiting great engineers it was mentioned

"Thinkers needed to work with James Gosling"
and not
"Experts needed to work with James Gosling"

Ok, to the next question, How to develop creative thinking skills? Probably this small tip may help.

As the saying goes Great people don't do different things but they do things differently, consider the example of Larry Page and Sergey Brin, at a stage where no one realized how search can influence people and it was considered a boring problem, Larry and Sergey made the difference and the rest is history. Therefore the first step towards creativity is to focus on a problem where we think we can make a difference.

But one can only succeed if they stick to the problem till the end. This is where most people gets lost and this separates the winners from the rest.

But from my experience, to be creative, one need not start tackling mind-boggling problems, but if we show difference in the little things we do, that will definitely propel our creative thinking to a level we would have never imagined! The best thing is Creativity can never be replaced by Technology.

Posted at 07:50PM May 31, 2007 by prasanna in Tech  |  Comments[2]