1. Loss of Creativity Loss of creativity from childhood to adulthood: (one study looked at the ability to generate original ideas) Resulting scores comparing “original to standard” Age 5 and Younger: 90% originality Age 7: 20% originality Adults: 2% originality Reference: “A-Ha” Jordan Ayan

2. Vital component of creativity Opens communication and team building Allows “inner-child” to go to work Escape from two major creativity killers: stress & self-consciousness “People do not quit playing because they grow old. They grow old because they quit playing.” --Oliver Wendell Holmes Play and Humor

3. Curiosity “I am no one special. I am only passionately curious.” --Einstein Imagination “Imagination rules the World.” -Napoleon Experimentation Fantasy Speculation or what if? Role playing Wonder Elements needed to be creative

4. Bodily-Kinesthetic Verbal/Linguistic Mathematical/logical Music Artistic Visual/Spatial Interpersonal Intrapersonal “Creativity is the only American Competitive advantage left.” -John Young Former CEO, Hewlett-Packard Building multiple intelligence

5. Creative 8 Ways We actually have 8 areas to be creative in: Verbal/Linguistic Mathematical/Logical Spatial Musical Bodily-Kinesthetic Intrapersonal Interpersonal Naturalist Reference: “A-Ha” Jordan Ayan