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Fundamental Strategies for Superb Creative
Thinking
©2005 By Dr Jill Ammon-Wexler
Strategy 1. Embrace Your
Problems
One of the most fundamental skills of creativity
is the
ability to recognize an opportunity and seize
it.
You have countless opportunities to expand your
creative thinking skills. Such opportunities
present
themselves daily at home, while driving to work,
during
meetings or lunch -- or while just hanging out
with
friends.
There’s really no shortage of opportunities to
refine
and develop your creativity. The most basic
approach is
to recognize that a “problem” may actually be a
golden
opportunity for a creative explosion – and seize
the
moment.
Strategy 2. Challenge Your Assumptions
It’s natural and necessary to make assumptions
about
the reality of our everyday world. We would
otherwise
spend all of our waking hours performing
unnecessary
mental analyses of ordinary things.
As a result, many times we see only what we
expect
to see. Our analysis of a situation or a problem
is based entirely on assumptions based on our
past
experience or “accepted knowledge.”
Plus assumptions can become so entrenched it
doesn’t
cross our mind to challenge them. This often
occurs
later in life – when one’s assumptions are no
longer
questioned, although time has passed and things
have
changed.
A problem may arise simply because we perceive a
situation or condition through a set of false
assumptions preventing clear thinking.
Challenging your assumptions is an important
component
of creativity. This allows you to look beyond
what is
obvious or already accepted. And it leads
straight to
the creative breakthroughs you’re looking for.
Truly creative people in all fields of interest
tend to
automatically challenge both their own
assumptions, and
the “commonly accepted knowledge” about a
problem. This
mental attitude is the true source of all of the
world’s great inventions and businesses.
The moment you choose to challenge one of your
assumptions as possibly “untrue” or
“incomplete,” you
are on the way to discovering something new and
different.
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Strategy 3. Take Some Risks
A willingness to take risks is at the very heart of
creativity.
No creative person succeeds without first failing – as
failures are part of the process of testing one’s
assumptions. There is simply no creativity without
“failure.”
To experience major creative breakthroughs, it’s
important to become comfortable taking risks. Each
“failure” you encounter will actually supercharge your
creativity by generating new information.
If you’re unwilling to take risks and deal with what
ordinary people call “failure,” then you cannot expect
to become a great creative thinker.
Modern neuroscience has shown that our brains are
literally rewired each time we learn something new by
“making a mistake.” The brain is designed to learn
through the trial and error process.
Strategy 4. Use Alternative Thinking
To come up with a creative idea, you will often need a
new vantage point. Creating a new solution to an
existing problem, for example, may require looking at
the problem from a fresh perspective.
There are many tools used by creative thinkers to
create such a fresh perspective, including:
Brainstorming, MESV creative visualization, and
considering the problem from a fresh vantage point.
The tools of brainstorming and MESV creative
visualization can be further explored by clicking the
links in the above paragraph, or at
www.quantum-self.com
Additionally, a great way to kickstart your creativity
is to look at your problem from the vantage point of
another profession. If you are a mechanical engineer,
for example, how would an architect view your problem?
Or if you are a product designer, how would an interior
decorator approach your problem?
This approach can lead to some remarkable creative
breakthroughs.
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