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Ming Thein

What Ming Thein thinks about innovation

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Photographer and writer based in Malaysia who publishes long-form camera, lens and photography-book reviews, essays and photoessays at blog.mingthein.com.

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  1. Our readingCreativity consists of curiosity combined with the foresight to imagine what a new combination of ideas could produce.

    curiositycreativity

    Their wordsI believe creativity is really two parts: curiosity and the ability to not just ask "what if?", but also use some foresight to imagine the potential outcome.

    ↗What is creativity?blog.mingthein.com 1st of 3 in this piece

  3. Our readingMaking connections across different disciplines makes a person more creative.

    Their wordsThe better a person is at making these cross-disciplinary connections, the more creative they tend to be.

    ↗What is creativity?blog.mingthein.com 2nd of 3 in this piece

  5. Our readingCreativity is never created from nothing but is always a derivation from existing elements, with greater creativity meaning a more distant derivation.

    creativity

    Their wordscreativity is never about making something out of nothing: it's always derivative in a way, even if 'more creativity' means a more distant derivation: 1+1=5, instead of 1+1=3.

    ↗What is creativity?blog.mingthein.com 3rd of 3 in this piece