Interview with Dr. Robert Bilder on Creativity and Problem Solving

Interview with Dr. Robert Bilder on Creativity and Problem Solving

1. How to handle criticism?

   • a person should always adapt curiosity about their failures and difficulties and try to understand the entire scope of the problem
   • only when experiencing discomfort, a person accomplish changes (no pain no gain)

2. Factors that various models of personality and temperament boil down to

   • OCEAN
     • openness
     • conscientiousness
     • extraversion
     • agreeableness
     • neuroticism

3. Relations between personality characteristics of people and their degree of creative achievment

   • Openness to a new experience → great creativity achievments
   • Disagreeableness → higher creativity achievment
     • Disagreeableness can push the envelope and challenge prior conventions

4. Creative product

   • new, novel, strange
   • useful, valued by someone

5. Tips on how to learn most effectively

   • Combine verbal and visual learning syles
   • Do an excercise called "powers of ten" (zooming in and zooming out) in order to look at the problem from different angles
     • Brain spontaneously does this during sleep too. So, sleeping is essential

6. Two sides of creativity

   • Things that are creative for the world
   • Things unique for a particular person