Do you like to create? Creative thinking is one of those things that requires no long boring lectures to work out. To be genuinely creative is to be totally spontaneous. Imagine for a moment that you have been put in charge of your city or town and your first job is to create a solution to the traffic crisis. What kind of solution would be creative?
- Build more roads
- Charge more for using the roads
- Build more car parks
- Any combination of the above
Actually none of those solutions are creative. Why? Well, because they are drawing on the same ideas that we have always used to fix the problem. It’s the first hand solution for goodness sake. A creative idea is something that makes the problem disappear. Why? If it’s not creative then it’s not creating and if that’s not happening then you are recycling through old answers. Notice all of the solutions about are the answers that are immediately obvious. A creative solution is one that makes the old ones obsolete. Here are some tips on how to create:
- Imagine the answer you could have if you could have any answer
- If you were able to start from scratch what would you do?
- Come up with four answers before you understand the problem and write down at least two opposite points of view
- Conjecture limitless possibilities!
Try this on a situation you are facing today and you will find it will kick start your creativity.
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August 25th, 2007 at 10:52 pm
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December 18th, 2007 at 6:40 pm
Yes.
And I think it is really important to have no rules or judgements during the creative thinking process.
Of course, at some point, you must make judgements (otherwise you end up doing nothing!). What I mean is that anything-goes. Every idea is worth exploring, even bad ideas (bad ideas can often spark great ideas, and so on).