creative thinking basics

CREATIVE THINKING

Prepared By : Gihan Aboueleish

Contents 1. Creativity and Types of Innovation

2. Conceptual Blocks

3. Three Components of Creativity

4. The Paradoxical Characteristics of Creative Groups

5. Tools for Defining Problems and Creating New

Ideas

6. Creating a Creative Climate

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Application


Exercise : More Than Meets The Eye

• One of the most useful of all thinking modes in creative

problem solving is visual thinking. It is especially effective

in solving problems where shapes, forms, or patterns are

concerned. To improve your powers of visualization,

concentrate on the accompanying illustration.

• Q: Try to see as many additional items in the picture as

you can. Look at it from many different points of view and

from as many angles as you wish.

•


Answers:

1. An anvil. 2. An overpass pillar on a highway. 3.

Champagne glass. 4. Piano stool. 5. Tower with

revolving restaurant. 6. Minute-timer. 7. Propeller. 8.

Chess-game rook or castle. 9. Fruit holder. 10. Bird

bath. 11. Chalice. 12. Rubber grommet. 13. Keyhole

slot in door. 14. An extrusion die. 15. Two Pontiac

automobiles about to crash head on. 16. A screw jack.

17. An arrowhead going into an object. 18. Two girls

sitting back-to-back and holding parcels on their heads.


Exercise : Breaking Out

The problem: Draw four straight lines

through the nine dots without retracing and

without lifting your pen from the paper.


Answer


What Is Creativity?

Creativity is the ability to bring something into existence that was not there before.

Webster’s Dictionary

Creativity is the connecting and rearranging of knowledge in the minds of people, who allow themselves to think flexibly - to generate new, often surprising ideas that others judge to be useful.

Paul E Plsek

Creativity is the ability to bring something into existence that was not there before -

from a possibility in the future.

It is generated from our inner domain of Being


WHY creativity is not taught in schools?

No Science-based definition !

No Science-based approach !


Two Actions: Ordinary Actions (Reaction) - From Knowing

&

Creative Actions (Creations) - From Being


Reactions


Everything That Exists Is There Because

Somebody Said So!


The Source Of The Communication For

Creation In The Domain Of Being

Intuition is the extension of the unlimited five senses into

Space/Time, which reveal the real world.

Integrity is the true representation of life as obtained by

our unlimited senses.

Intention is both the built-in life force and/or the power of

growth, as well as the conscious commitment

to create something revealed from Intuition

and Integrity.


The communication for creation

Declarations

Promises

Requests

The general condition for generating creations


If we can ignore the advice and objections from our ego

and our conscious mind, and do what we have promised

and keep our word only because we promised to do so,

then we will receive the outer and inner support for our

project that is necessary to produce unforeseen and

outstanding results, which often surpass our highest goals

and expectations.

Creations are generated when we live by our word and not

as a reaction to circumstances surrounding us.

We can’t be creative without good support

Creativity shows up in cooperation between people

supporting each other.


Costs And Benefits Of Creactions And Reactions

Thank you


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