Take time to- think creatively

The key to thinking creatively, it has been said is asking questions, but not just any questions open ended questions will unlock your creative juices. Every person who tapped into their creative mind liked asking the following questions who, what, where, when, why, how and if. Each question you ask is an opportunity for you to learn something new. Apart from asking these questions the creative mind thinks in one or more of the following 7 ways when presented with a problem. Associations, combinations, Adaptation, substitution, magnification, minification and rearrangement.

Associative thinking -The mental process of making associations between a given subject and all pertinent present factors drawing on past experience. Associative is quite good in helping you remember things easier and quicker since you associate two things together. It the sort of think that would help a child recall a bus as a car as they have the association of being vehicles

Combination thinking- as the name suggests it’s combining ideals, old and new, ancient and modern, from different background i.e psychology and theology, from different cultures African and European. This kind of thinking has helped give raise to things like musical comedy, 3D films and in a general sense what is now as the global village.

Adoptive thinking- What if you already had the knowledge you needed to make a difference? What if all you had to learn was how to apply that knowledge in a new, creative and adaptive way? What if you have to use the some product in a different environment? Would you remove/add something to make it work? You are right that is adoptive thinking.

So I hope I have kick started the creative process in your life, tomorrow be prepared to learn more about Substitution, magnification, minification and rearrangement.