Employees who mass produce ideas, flashes of inspiration, and creativity are highly valued. These are necessary in any company and in any family life. Ideas are born from a combination of experience and motivation. The knowledge and experience we gain in our lives are stored in the temporal lobe of the brain. The temporal lobe accumulates various experiences and memories. Meanwhile, the frontal lobe of the brain creates motivation and goal awareness. The motivation and values generated in the frontal lobe bring out the knowledge and experience in the temporal lobe. Ideas can be likened to the multiplication of the motivation of the frontal lobe and the experience of the temporal lobe. If you make an effort to increase your experience and increase your motivation, you can improve your ability to create ideas.
Companies around the world are struggling with how to create ideas and creativity and increase productivity. Many companies are setting up teams to improve productivity. However, there are cases that teams that have gathered talented people do not achieve the results they expected. Google analyzed nearly 200 teams to find out which teams produced results and which did not. The results of the study were interesting. It didn’t seem to have much to do with whether the team members were excellent or what kind of people they were. The results showed that ideas and creativity were only obtained when psychological safety was established within the team. If the results of a proposal or ingenuity are adopted, the frontal lobe is stimulated and motivation increases. If motivation increases, memories and experiences from the temporal lobe will flow out more efficiently.
It has also been found that the quality of ideas and creativity increases when the element of diversity is added to this element of psychological safety. In research on biodiversity, there is a mathematical model called “rock-paper-scissors interaction.” This is a theory that biodiversity is enriched in a rock-paper-scissors state. Rock-paper-scissors is based on a relative relationship in which rock beats scissors, scissors beats paper, and paper beats rock. If rock beats both scissors and paper, only rock will remain in the world. If only rock remains in the world, diversity will disappear. In an ecosystem, a rock-paper-scissors game of three-way stalemate is the natural state. Ideas and creativity are nurtured in this natural state.
