#create creative thinking techniques

A Creative Thinking Technique Used by Leading Designers

Take a moment and imagine all the things that the figure might represent. If I asked you to list all the different things that you imagined, I have no doubt that you would come up with several fascinating ideas. What do you think the figure represents?

Once the figures are given names and meanings, it is almost impossible to look at them and have the same perception which existed before you knew…

The Difference Between the Way Creative Geniuses Think and the Way the Average Person Thinks

Albert Einstein was once asked what the difference was between him and the average person. He said that if you asked the average person to find a needle in the haystack, the person would stop when he or she found a needle. He, on the other hand, would tear through the entire haystack looking for all the possible needles. With creative thinking, one generates as many alternative approaches as one…

25 SURE-FIRE WAYS TO KILL CREATIVITY IN YOUR EMPLOYEES

  1) Never, ever examine yourself or your company. 2) Whatever it is you do, do it over and over and over and over again. 3) Never look at what your business, market, or competition is doing. 4) Never tolerate any suggestion that implies that you or your management system may contribute to a problem. 5) Never change your plans. 6) Keep company goals vague. 7) Do not be accessible to your…

St. IGNATIUS’S EXERCISE ON HOW TO CHANGE YOUR PERSPECTIVE TOWARD PROBLEMS

Problems frequently give a vague sense of disquiet, a sense of things not going in quite the direction you had planned however, you have no clear thoughts of what the ‘right’ direction might be. This exercise that follows was suggested by St Ignatius Loyola (some 500 years ago).

It allows you to explore problems at a ‘deeper’ subconscious level by changing your perspective from the external to…

All art is a reaction to the first line drawn. Unless the artist sits in front of the canvas and paints, there can be no art. Unless the writer sits down and starts to type, there can be no book. Unless the musician plays their instrument, there can be no music. Unless the sculptor begins to chip away at the marble, there can be no sculpture. Unless the explorer begins the journey, there can be…

One of the many ways in which our mind attempts to make life easier is to solve the first impression of the problem that it encounters.  Like our first impressions of people, our initial perspective on problems and situations are apt to be narrow and superficial.  We see no more than we’ve been conditioned to see — and stereotyped notions block clear vision and crowd out imagination.  This…

Below is a drawing.  What does it look like to you?

If you said frog, you were right.  However, if you said horse, you were also right.  Can you see the horse?  (Hint: Tilt your head to the right.)

We see different things in the lines and shapes of the drawing depending on how we look at the drawing.  In a way, it is the same in the real world where we don’t see things as they are, we see them as…