Daily Creative Thinking Development - Day Four

Daily Creative Thinking Development - Day Four

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. Use Creativity Quotes each day.

Here is one source of many resources for Creativity quotes:

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

4 quotes to consider today

“I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.” – Woodrow Wilson

“Our best thoughts come from others.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.”  – Dr. Seuss

“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to look after them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.” – John Steinbeck

Thank you to Mike Brown and Brainzooming my source for these today.

B. Focus on one Creativity Trait each day to further develop it.

13. fluent

Generate many ideas….how about for using a brick other than
building walls or paved areas?

It could be a door stop, a boat anchor, a weapon, a prop, a weight for holding down papers, etc., etc., etc. This is what a creative person would say about the possible uses of a brick.

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

C. Practice using a different creative thinking tool each day.

RANDOM INPUTE

Combine ideas from various parts of your life, your profession/occupation or multiple occupations, forms of engineering, science, sports to generate new ideas today.

Random Input is a technique for linking other thinking patterns into the ones we are using. It helps us move outside our normal way of thinking, so that we can come up with new solutions to our problem....

Back in the early 90s when I began my first website with the intention of it becoming a multi-media resource of as many sources of creativity materials: books, articles, filmstrips, videos, movies, etc.

The creator of MINDTOOLS began and created over the 20 to 25 years his fantastic site devoted to TOOLS.

http://www.mindtools.com/pages/main/newMN_CT.htm

here is one resource for picking future tools and techniques:

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