Day Two of Developing Your Creative Thinking Tools & Traits

Day Two

Daily Creative Thinking Exercises

Here is a system for improving your creative thinking traits, skills and the tools and techniques you know and use.

We each can improve our creative thinking abilities

by improving them our creativeness will reawaken

and get stronger.

try this simple approach Monday to Friday

a. read and think about a creativity quote

b. choose a creative thinking trait to think about and practice for that day.

c. practice using one creative thinking tool that you know or learn a new one.

i.e.:

A.

Here is one source of many resources for Creativity quotes:

http://www.cre8ng.com/professional-materials/about-me/creativity-quotes

Two quotes to consider today

“It is not the strongest of the species that survive nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

Charles Darwin, scientist

“If you’re a truly creative person, you know that feeling insecure and lonely is par for the course. You can’t have it both ways: You can’t be creative, and conform too. You have to recognize that what makes you different also makes you creative.”

Arno Penzias, Noble Prize winner for physics

B.

3. sense of destiny

Intuitively creative people know that they have a purpose, a destiny or they realize that they can choose or create one to drive them to reach greater heights of skill, ability, or talent.

Think about what has already shown as your destiny or what it might become.

Here is one resource for 52 traits often found in highly creative people and children while they are still naturally creative:

http://www.cre8ng.com/professional-materials/about-me/32-ways-to-be-more-creative/32-traits-of-creative-thinking

C.

Here is a fun Creative Thinking Tool I learned from a long time CPSI friend and colleague.

SUPERHEROES

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I first used the concept of using “Super Heroes” to help change perspective of problems or generate ideas when I attended a session done by Steve Grossman, who was an engineer in the paper industry then in 1978 or 1979.

Basically when I have used it I divide the group into teams of 4 or 5 and have them choose their own Superhero or make one up.

Then as Steve taught us our assignment is to generate ideas of how our SUPERHERO
would solve our problem.

A follow up step is to take some of the WILDEST IDEAS and tame them down into real doable solutions.

here is one resource for picking future tools and techniques:

http://www.cre8ng.com/professional-materials/creative-thinking-tools/tools-backup