What Is Creative Thinking?
Creative thinking is the ability to generate, connect, reframe, or develop ideas in ways that can produce useful possibilities. Creativity is not limited to artistic work.
Creativity across professions
An engineer may creatively redesign a process. A teacher may invent a new learning activity. A business owner may find a different distribution model. A researcher may connect ideas from separate fields.
The creative process
Divergence → exploration → combination → selection → refinement. Generating many ideas is only one part. Useful creativity also requires evaluation. An idea can be unusual without being useful.
Development exercise
Take an ordinary problem and deliberately produce: three conventional solutions; three unusual solutions; one solution borrowed from another field. Then evaluate the ideas against real constraints.
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