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Creative Thinking Critical Thinking vs. Creative Thinking How to improve creative thinking skills
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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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10 Tips for to improve creative thinking...