Thinking creatively helps attain a good place in every corporate sector. Apart from this it leads towards a quality life.
When we hear of the term creative thinking, the first thing that strikes the mind is “How”.Creative thinking is directly proportional to lateral personality.
Thinking creatively helps attain a good place in every corporate sector. Apart from this it leads towards a quality life.
Quick tips to enhance Creative Abilities
- Become more aware and sensitive to be able to notice and respond to feelings, sights, sounds, textures around you. Spot problems, missing information etc. Try to notice contradictions and incompleteness in situations that others may not do. For this, cultivate the habit of wider reading, exposure to a variety of information and develop the art of asking questions pondering over the mysteries of situations and objects.
- Generate as many ideas, responses, solutions or suggestions on a given task or situation to increase your flow of thoughts. Try deliberately to look for multiple angles of a task and situation to increase flexibility in your thinking. It could be, for example- thinking of alternative arrangements of furniture in a room to generate more space, different ways of conversing with people, looking for costs and benefits of a course of study or career, looking for ways of dealing with an angry friend etc.
- There exists a famous Osborn’s theory of brainstorming which has a point of view which states that imagination should be given priority over judgement till all the ideas are exhausted. This helps in increasing the fluency of ideas and piling up alternatives.
- To enhance creative thinking , originality is the key. It can be developed by practicing fluency, flexibility, habit of associative thinking, exploring linkages, and fusing remote ideas. A creative thinker may not evolve new ideas but can evolve new combinations of ideas. It is the chain of thoughts and cross fertilisation of ideas that may bring out something new.
- Never accept the first idea or solution. Many ideas die because we reject them thinking that the idea might be a silly idea. Generate a number of ideas, then select the best amongst all. Resist the temptation for immediate reward and success and cope with the frustration and failure . Encourage the idea of self evaluation.
- Visualize causes and consequences and think ahead, predicting things that have never happened. Be aware of your own defenses concerning the problem. When we feel threatened by a problem, we are less likely to think of creative ideas.
- Lastly, be self confident and positive. Never undermine your creative potential. Experience the joy of your creation.
