“Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Increase the size of your playing field. As you create ideas, think real big. As you do, you draw from a greater source of experiences and thoughts. Project 3 years into the future. See it as international. See it worth millions. If resources and money and time were unlimited, what new ideas would you think of? All we are doing is creating seeds that relate more directly with the situation or question at hand.
Play with a future perfect statement, which idealizes everything. I can offer anything, anywhere, anytime, immediately, with big benefits, at zero cost to me, for a high profit, now.
Streeeeeeeeeeetch your thinking. You are the only one setting your limits.
Create more mind development, options and fun in your life. Creative thinking exercises and our creativity workbook have many techniques and exercises to improve creative imagination.
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Do you know the most important thing that enhances creativity? It rhymes with weed. It produces the oak tree. It is what we often eat or grind up for flour. It can mean egg or germ or nucleus. It can mean cause or origination. You guessed it. It is SEED.
Our minds love to associate one thing to another. But as we get stuck in very fixed patterns of thinking, we think of fewer and fewer connections. We are ruled by habits and automatic responses. So we must stimulate our thinking with lots of different things to chart new paths in our brains. Learn how to SEED your thoughts.
Become more aware of how your mind creates your reality. Expand your creativity. Be inspired to be all you can be. Experience creative thinking techniques.
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“Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.” — Edward De Bono
I love Edward De Bono’s explanation of how humor sparks creativity. To illustrate this, I am going to tell you a joke:
Did you hear about the man who wanted to start a bakery? … He could not raise enough dough.
Now visualize a horizontal line that represents our normal thinking pattern. When you hear the joke’s question, your mind begins to move in a linear and logical way along the line as it thinks about a bakery and starting a business. When you hear the punch line, your mind makes the connection of dollars being called “dough.” But then it jumps off of its horizontal track to connect to a bakery’s use of bread dough. Our brains make the “ah-ha” connection between the two meanings of dough and we laugh. We now have two completely different ways of reading the story. Creativity is the same. We force the mind outside of its normal thinking patterns, then the mind will find a way to link back, creating a new mental connection – AN IDEA.
“The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things: ancient history, nineteenth- century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, flower arranging, and hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later or six months, or six years down the road. But he has faith that it will happen.” — Carl Ally
Never be stuck without a solution again. Discover how creative thinking exercises can quickly turn you into your own inspired think tank.
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“Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we know in order to find out what we do not know.Hence, to think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.” — George Kneller
Creativity is not a gift you have to be born with. Most creative people have learned how to be creative. They do it logically. They look at one perspective and think of another. They appreciate metaphors. They transpose their thinking and make cross-connections easily. They trigger their thinking one way and then apply it to the problem at hand.
Get ready to see with multiple vision. Get ready to be an expert at connective thinking.
Learn 10 easy creativity exercises and techniques. Become a creative thinker with our online ‘Creative Thinking’ workbook and daily support emails.
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“Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.” — Mary Lou Cook
Creativity is:
- seeing things differently;
- seeing different things;
- seeing things double or better;
- generating multiple options;
- breaking the rules;
- thinking linking;
- a high level of awareness;
- knowing how you think;
- accepting everyone else’s ideas;
- a path of least resistance–flow;
- being broad minded;
- zig zag thinking;
- failure-proof thinking;
- virtual visioning;
- playing ‘what ifs’;
- trying something on for size.
Creativity sounds like fun, right? It is — enjoy the process.
See things differently with the help of our creative thinking exercises and techniques. These will help you test your creativity, understand it and expand it.
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September 3rd, 2011
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