One fairly simple way to do this is by drawing or creating
something in three dimensions, perhaps using junk-modelling or balloons and
post-it notes. This can be an individual or group activity, to aid either your
own or everyone’s thinking processes.
A way of looking at problems or situations from a fresh
perspective that suggests unorthodox solutions (which may look unsettling at
first). Creative thinking can be stimulated both by an unstructured process
such as brainstorming, and by a structured process such as lateral thinking.
For one thing, there’s a lot more to creativity than
thinking. It’s possible to sit around having lots of creative thoughts, but
without actually making anything of them. But if you start making something,
creative ideas seem to emerge naturally out of the process. So if I had to
choose, I’d say creative doing beats creative thinking.
A simple definition is that creativity is the ability to
imagine or invent something new. As we will see below, creativity is not the
ability to create out of nothing (only God can do that), but the ability to
generate new ideas by combining, changing, or reapplying existing ideas. Some
creative ideas are astonishing and brilliant, while others are just simple,
good, practical ideas that no one seems to have thought of yet
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Unlike solving an analytic problem, creative insights come
from letting our minds wander along tangents and into seemingly unrelated
areas. Though many of us identify as morning larks or night owls, peaking in
our problem-solving skills and focus at particular times of the day, creative
thinking actually works better at non-optimal times.
