Creative Thinking Honey Patel

Creativity is not just art, it’s a way of thinking about anything and everything.

Creativity: \cre-a-tiv-i-ty/ The ability to use imagination to transcend traditional ideas, rules, patters, relationships, or the like, and to create meaningful new ideas, forms, and methods.

Critical ThinkingActive, persistent, and careful consideration of a belief or form of knowledge, the grounds that support it, and the conclusions that follow.

Creative ThinkingGeneration of new ideas within or across domains of knowledge, drawing upon or intentionally breaking with established symbolic rules and procedures. Analytic Generative

Convergent Divergent

Vertical Lateral

Probability Possibility

Judgment Suspended judgment

Hypothesis testing Hypothesis forming

Objective Subjective

Answer An answer

Closed Open-ended

Linear Associative

Reasoning Speculating

Logic Intuition

Yes but Yes and

Creative thinking and critical thinking is utilizing both parts of the brain

to collate information and come up with a novel solution .

An Ability

It’s the process of generating ideas by combining, changing

and reapplying existing ideas.

An Attitude Accepting change, willingness to play

with ideas ad possibilities, being

flexible in your outlook, etc.

Helps recognize, and resolve problems quicker and easier.

Provides perspective, and fosters idea generation and innovation.

Enhances your physical, mental, and emotional well being.

Creative Thinking… What and Why?

Keep abreast and keep track of ideas. Read the magazines, trade journals, literature, blogs, etc.

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Be alert in your observations. Look for similarities, differences, uniqueness in situations and problems.

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Have courage and self-confidence. Be a paradigm pioneer. Have the tenacity to overcome obstacles.

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Engage in creative hobbies. Explore arts, science, culture, technology, to learn and enhance skill set.

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Deepen self-knowledge and understanding. Learn about your strengths, skills, expectations, fears.

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Learn outside your specialty.Use cross-fertilization to bring ideas from one field or to another

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Be open and receptive to ideas. Build on new ideas from by developing them from known concepts.

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Adopt a risk taking attitude. Fear of failure inhibits the ability generate solutions and take action.

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Avoid rigid, set patterns of things. Challenge your mind to achieve the same thing in a different way.

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Ask questions. Challenge the status quo by asking: Who? What? Where? When? Why? How?

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