Royane Real
Creative Thinking Techniques
By: Steve Gillman
Introductory comments
By Royane Real
Author of "How You Can Be Smarter - Use Your Brain to Learn Faster, Remember Better and Be More Creative”
Are you one of those people who can come up with new, creative ideas as easily as breathing?
Or do you find that being creative for you seems just about impossible?
Some of us as adults seem to be naturally very creative, while others find it very difficult to think of new ways of doing things.
I read once that it’s easier to teach a creative person to become organized, than it is to teach an organized person to become creative.
Why would this be?
Creativity requires a constant flow of new, innovative combinations of ideas.
A naturally creative person will automatically put together strange, unexpected combinations of things, or look at something in a totally new way.
If a person is very organized in their thinking, then creative thoughts may feel uncomfortable to them, because creative ideas often seem messy and unpredictable.
To a very organized person, creative thoughts may also feel like a waste of time, because many of them will turn out to be unpractical. A very organized person may therefore believe that trying to think in a creative manner is a waste of his time.
Whether you currently think of yourself as creative or not, we can all learn to increase our ability to think of creative ideas.
Many techniques to improve creativity have been developed, but to increase your own ability to think of creative new ways of looking at things, and new ways of doing things, you have to actually practice these creativity boosting techniques and you have to make these new ways of creative thinking a habit.
In the following article, author Steve Gillman below shows you some ways to stimulate your brain into becoming more creative.
This introductory comment above was written by Royane Real who is the author of the book “How You Can Be Smarter - Use Your Brain to Learn Faster, Remember Better and Be More Creative” Download it today and learn more ways to get the maximum use of your brainpower. It’s available at http://www.lulu.com/real
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Feature article
Creative Thinking Techniques
By: Steve Gillman
Want the mind of a creative inventor? Start redesigning everything you see.
Imagine better cars, faster ways to serve food, or better light bulbs. If you do this every day for three weeks, it will become a habit.
Want to be the person who always has something interesting to say? Train yourself to look at things from other perspectives.
What would the Buddha say about this? How would a Martian view it? What's the opposite perspective?
The point isn't to ask others silly questions, but to ask yourself, to see what interesting ideas result. Do this until it is a habit, and you'll always have something interesting to add to a conversation.
Want systematic creativity in poetry? Put a word on each of 40 cards; 10 nouns, 10 verbs, 10 adjectives, and 10 random words. Shuffle, deal out four cards, and write a 4-line poem using one of the words in each line. My wife has had poems published that were created with this technique.
Your mind will find a poetic use for any word if you use this method often.
Solve Problems Creatively
Maybe you've heard of problem solving techniques such as "attributes listing," and "concept combination." More creative thinking doesn't come from just knowing these techniques, though. You have to use them until they become a part of your habitual thinking process.
Imagine you want to invent a new bicycle.
If you've trained your mind in "assumption challenging," you'll automatically begin to ask things like, "Are wheels necessary?" "Does it have to go outside?" What if the "bike" was indoors, and if pedaling it ran a video screen? You could "steer" through endless different scenes.
You won't always have great ideas, but you'll have enough ideas to make it more likely that you'll find a useful one. This "spontaneous" creativity will be because of your brain training exercise.
Why not start developing those habits of creative thinking?
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Steve Gillman has been studying brainpower enhancement, creative problem solving, and related topics for years. Subscribe to his free Creative Problem Solving Course, and get a free gift at: www.ProblemSolving101.com
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