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The concept, scope and theory
of creative thinking.
Creative personality.
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Creativity
Creative
Thinking
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Creativity
Create > creativity; creative thinking
Creative thinking is the ability to bring somethingof new existence. (Websters Dictionary 1976)
Creativity is the making of new and rearrangingof the old. (Mike Vance, 1995)
Being creative is seeing the same thing aseverybody else but thinking of somethingdifferent. (Wycoff, 1995)
Something or some process that is original, novel,newly thought of, and in some cases as beinguseful. (Amabile, 1999)
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CREATIVE THINKING
CRITICAL THINKING
ORDINARY THINKING
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Creativity & IQ Many creative persons have averageIQs; no correlation between
intelligence and creativity.
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Elements of Creative thinking
1. Be curious
The principles of curiosity are:
Play: Playing with your thoughts.
Suspend judgment: Suspend all unnecessary things coming to your
mind.
Be open to all stimuli: Spend 5 minutes sitting and noticing every sound,
sight, smell, the feeling of your bum on the seat, the thoughts in your
head...everything.
Ask yourself: Why? Why not? What if? What if there were no
constraints? What else?
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2. Connect the unconnected
Many creative thinking experts rate this as THE essential element, almost as the
definition of creative thinking.
The principles of connecting are:
Read widely
Talk to people in different fields
Try something different
Step sideways
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3. Cultivate your ideas
New ideas are like seedlings; they need to be cared for, protected from
enemies and kept out of the harsh light of day for a while. Learn to champion
your ideas until they are robust enough to sink or swim in the real world.
The principles of connecting are:
Protect your new ideas
Daydream
Give it time to develop
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4. Challenge yourself
There is no way round this one - creative thinking means stepping
outside your comfort zone and having a bit of courage.
The principles of challenging yourself are:
Take risks and accept failures: The usual ratio is 1 good idea from 20
ideas (if you're lucky), and it doesn't get higher with practice, that's just
how it is. If you're not having failures you are not close enough to your
edge.
Question assumptions: You may be amazed to see the ways you have
unnecessarily constrained yourself, the 'rules' that can be ignored and
the habits that no longer have a connection to reality.
Trust yourself: All creatives learn this one - to know when to follow thathunch (and to notice when you're having a hunch in the first place).
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3.STEPS TO CREATIVITY
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1.Knowledge
Knowledge of the world around you through your 5 senses of taste, smell, sound,
feel and sight form the starting point for developing your creativity. You need
ideas - the more knowledge you have, the more ideas you can have. Explore
areas outside your work or hobby - the less restrictive you are with your
knowledge, the better.
2.Thinking
Here's where you're using your mind to start thinking deeply and thoroughly about a
problem that you would like to solve. Just set out your problem clearly. You are now
looking for ideas that could be possible solutions, and you will want to think of all
angles for those ideas. Some ideas will be unworkable (too expensive or not practical),
some will be ridiculous, and some will seem unlikely to ever be a solution, but that is
not your concern at this stage. You may be able to form connections between one idea
and the next to come up with a possible third solution that is the answer to all your
problems! If you have a team of like-minded people, you can leverage on theirknowledge and come up with even more possible solutions. Thinking long and hard
about the problem is the key to solving it - put 100% of your mind power into thinking!
"Sometimes searching for ideas is like being a mosquito in a nudist
colony. You know what you want to do, but don't know where to
begin."
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3.Incubation
Here's the stage where you have been thinking long and hard about the possible
solutions to your problems but you're unable to come to any solution. Here's when
you relax. Go for a walk. Try sleeping for a while. Do something totally unrelated to
what you've been working on. You don't know it, but your subconscious mind will
continue to work on the problem. This background work will sometimes produce
ideas and solutions that you'll never think of when you're actively working on the
problem!
4. Eureka !
The epitome of all your hard work and efforts. You've shifted through all the possible
solutions, made connections with unrelated ideas, thought about it deep and long,
incubated it for a while, and now you've got the solution! Saviour the moment. Itdoesnt normally get any better than this!
"I can remember the very spot in the road, whilst in my carriage, when to
my joy the solution occurred to me."
- Charles Darwin
The fourth step to creativity: Discovering the solution!
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5.Development
If you've set out on your creativity journey with the intention ofbenefiting everybody who has a need for it as well as make a profit, then
here's where you come to the hardest part of your solution - making it
functional, useful, cost-effective and profitable. Developing your solution
further so that it will be a "hit" with the public requires time, effort and
money. You may need experts in manufacturing, financing, marketing and
promotion. In short, you will want your solution to be known and
available to everybody at a price that they can pay while feeling that
they've got a good deal. If you can do this, you've achieved your goal. The
profits will certainly follow. And it all started off with an idea in your head
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METHOD OF CREATIVITY
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