Development contributory skills and case
- 2. Creative Thinking What we learnt in formal education • Emphasizes the skills of analysis • Follow a logical argument • Eliminate the incorrect paths and focus on the correct one.
- 3. Creative thinking - Meaning • Creative thinking is the ability to consider something in a new way. Creative thinking includes analysis, open- mindedness, problem-solving, organization, and communication. • 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.
- 5. 10 Ways to develop Creative Thinking Skills to Succeed • It come from within or by practicing effectively. Nothing can be at the peak of perfection, but we can always try to get better with time, and Creative thinking is best only when you keep on practicing.
- 6. 1. Focus on your goals • For being creative, the initial step is to know what you want in life. • It’s not always about the destination, but at least you must know what you’re going to do in life, it can be anything you’ve strived for. Although many people aren’t lucky to choose their field of interest for pursuing a career, some do it anyway. • Know what you want and know your strength. You will understand how you can follow and grab it instead of doing something you would regret.
- 7. 2. Be patient and give yourself some space • Space and time, both are necessary for us to be creative thinkers as it will help us in exploring more. • Never be that person who is afraid of thinking out of the box, because if you’re willing to increase your creative side, you will have to think in different ways.
- 8. 3. Accept challenges • Look at challenges as if they’re opportunities because they’re something that can either make us or break us. • So always think critically, anything that disturbs you, let it go but don’t forget to question your weaknesses or why it bothers you. You must know your strengths and weaknesses and challenges can help us to determine these things.
- 9. 4. Start visualizing • One of the best ways that can help you in increasing your skill in creative thinking is visualizing. It allows you to imagine and think about any memory, any virtual situation or anything. • Start assuming things and look at it from several perspectives. It can be from being into someone else’s shoes, or you can seek help from others while visualizing.
- 10. 5. Be curious and question everything • Be curious; it means you don’t have to ask any illogical or irrelevant questions from every individual you meet. • But try to ask yourself and get indulged in thinking about its source and its consequences.
- 11. 6. Engage yourself in Art, Music or Theatre • Since we have already discussed the artist, each one of us has a side that is an artist on their own. • All we have to do is comprehend that side of ours and let us understand that we can also think creatively. You know every individual who took art seriously has to ask himself/herself about the thing that they love.
- 12. 7. Creative Problem Solving • Whenever you are in front of a problem that seems impossible to be solved, you can ask people to help you. • But what if you don’t find any legit solution for it? You have your own back, never forget, and never underestimate that. You need no one if you’re good enough to solve your problems.
- 13. 8. Get along with people who love art • There can be people who love art; you need to get along with them; they will indeed help you in becoming more of an artist. • Start meeting these people and ask them to help you because their ideas can be proved as one of the best ideas for solving problems. People who are an artist are mostly optimistic; they would love to help you.
- 14. 9. Be playful • Since it is essential to know your target, but you don’t have to choose a similar or any annoying way to achieve it. • While reaching your goal, you have to be good at learning because learning will ultimately help you in understanding things better than before. Every target we want to achieve has a specific meaning in our life, without purpose or intentions, we don’t seek anything.
- 15. 10. Keep your mind open for ideas • When you think about questioning everything that is happening around you, you mean that your mind will always have some space to learn new things. • That’s because, with an approach to learn new skills every day, one has to explore, play and experiment with ideas. Not everyone can give you better ideas, but they can certainly make you learn something.
- 17. CRITICAL THINKING • Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action.
- 18. Characteristics • Observation • Curiosity • Objectivity • Introspection • Analytical thinking • Identifying biases • Determining relevance • Inference • Compassion and empathy • Humility • Active listeners • Effective communicators • Creative thinking
- 20. Ways to Improve Critical Thinking