Creative thinking basics

CREATIVE THINKING

Prepared By : Gihan Aboueleish

Wednesday, February 29, 2012 Creative thinking - Gihan Abiueleish 2

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


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

Creative thinking basics

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