developing creative thinking
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Developing Creative Thinking
Chapter 8: Thinking
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DID YOU KNOW?
• The potential for creative thinking is in all of us.
• Creativity can be reflected in activities likewriting, teaching, cooking, story telling, acting, playing games or trying to solve day to day problems.
• 2 types of thinking :-
Convergent Divergent Thinking Thinking(narrowing down (Open minded thinking;a problem to find individual thinks ofthe one probable various answers to solution) a single question as per
his/her experience)
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Developing creative thinking –the barriers faced
& the strategies used
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1) Developing Creative Thinking
Hereditary/Genetic Factors
Environmental & Cultural
Factors
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Slump in creative thinking - India
Untapped creative minds in the deprived sections of society
Practice (& training) makes a man perfect
1) Developing Creative Thinking
“SomeFacts”
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Step 1: Identify inhibiting factors
• Categorize blocks to creative thinking
Step 2: Make conscious attempts to overcome them
• Apply strategies
1) Developing Creative Thinking
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2) Barriers to Creative Thinking
Blocks
Habitual
Perceptual
Motivational & Emotional
Cultural
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2) Barriers to Creative Thinking
• HABITUAL BLOCKS
Tendency to be over-powered by habits, in the ways of thinking, leads to downfall of creative expression.
We become so used to seeing & perceiving things, and thinking about them in one such manner, that thinking in authentic ways becomes a chore.
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2) Barriers to Creative Thinking
• PERCEPTUAL BLOCKS
They prevent us from being open to novel and original ideas.
Barriers are basically derived from assumptionssuch as “no other solutions exist”, “this is the only alternative” etc.
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2) Barriers to Creative Thinking
• MOTIVATIONAL & EMOTIONAL BLOCKS
These blocks actually prove that thinking is just not a cognitive process.
When a person lacks motivation or is over-whelmed/effusive with emotions, he/she fails to apply creative thinking. Examples include – fear of ridicule/rejection, negative assumptions about oneself, an “I can’t do it” feeling.
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2) Barriers to Creative Thinking
• CULTURAL BLOCKS
Allowing the traditions, societal expectations or stereotypes to have excessive control on oneself gives rise to a cultural block.
Cultural blocks arise due to the fear of being different, the tendency to maintain status etc.
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Strategies for Creative Thinking
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Become more aware & sensitive to feelings, sights, sounds & textures around you.
Cultivate habit of wider reading; develop habit of asking questions
Generate as many ideas as possible for a particular problem; think of alternatives; NEVER accept the 1st idea; let more come & then select the best
Brainstorming – let your mind think freely and let the ideas come; DO NOT start evaluating their worth already
Practise making unusual associations & analogies. Let the conflicting thoughts co-exist. Dwell in ambiguity; let your ideas stay in mind for a while, you may come up with something enlightening
Indulge in activities which bring forward your originality & get feedback from outsiders i.e. those not involved
Try to predict events and analyse what change they might bring; in case of failure, COPE WITH IT; be self-confident & positive