Daily Developing Your Creative Thinking - Day Three

Daily Developing Your Creative Thinking - Day Three

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

“Without deviation, progress is not possible.”

Frank Zappa, musician

“You have to be deviant if you’re going to do anything new.”

David Lee, producer of TV show Frasier

B.

Creative Thinking Traits

3. Divergent Thinker (sometimes seen as Deviant)

Highly Creative People love to diverge from the norm, to look at things from multiple positions, to challenge anything that exists. Because of this they are seen at times to be off-key, deviant, atypical, irregular, or uncharacteristic.

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.

Practice a different Creative Thinking Tool each day.

Here is a fun Creative Thinking Tool I created after my 1^st or 2^nd CPSI.

ALPHABETIZING

It can be used to create many different tools

First Step

Write the Roman alphabet, a to z, on a large piece of paper mounted on a wall or on a table top.

Then have people choose which alphabetical list to generate in their team:

list of real or imaginary people:

famous people,
heroes,
superheroes,
entertainers.

Then in individual teams use your list of people to generate unique ideas and perspectives or points of view almost instantly.

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

Alan

alan@cre8ng.com