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John Kao discovered a great deal about creativity and invention during his years instructing at the Harvard Business University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Press Lab, but also as a serial businessman, psychiatrist, movie maker, and jazz pianist. He had written about the topic in Jamming-The Artwork and Discipline of Business Ingenuity, a BusinessWeek best seller that is published in more than a dozen languages. Now, he's distilling what he has learned into some brief, practical manuals. The topic of the some may be how to clear the mind to make method for creativity and the great ideas that follow. "Include me to Harvard," he says. "My class room is like numerous others at the business school. The setting is informal and comfortable, yet conducive to crisis. I lower the lighting and have my students to shut their sight. 'Picture yourself in five years,' I inform them. 'Are you together or with someone else? Where do your home is? Where would you work? What exactly are you doing right now? What do you smell? What do you tastes? Touch the object nearest you. What do you feel?' My students smile. I really know what they are experiencing. These are playing parts in a mental performance. Initially, they are astonished by what they are imagining, but soon they are engrossed. Some may be walking through Washington's corridors of vitality. Another is climbing an Alpine rock face. Another is ranking in the Shanghai Stock Exchange. After 5 minutes or so, I turn up the lights and have how they feel. These are energized, emotional, influenced."
