The Snowflake Chronicles

Creative Thinking

16 Qawl 163 B.E. - December 8, 2006

The link to this article was passed on from a member of my journaling group and I thought I’d post some of the information in this blog. This is an interesting article on creativity.

READ: Unleashing Creativity by Ulrich Kraft at http://www.sciammind.com/article.cfm?articleID=00028EE8-4369-123A-822283414B7F49...

Stay curious about the universe. Let the world intrigue you.

QUOTE: “…Creative thinking is the norm in human beings and can be observed in almost all mental activities." by Steven M. Smith.

Intelligence isn’t critical to creativity.

Creativity is the difference between “convergent” and “divergent” thinking.

Creative Characteristics

Ideational fluency = how many sentence, ideas, or associations does a person think of when given a word. More is always better.
Variety and flexibility = how many uses can you think of when presented with a object. The more the better off you are creatively.
Originality = developing solutions other people can’t think of.
Elaboration = the ability to create, expand on, and work ideas into concrete solutions.
Problem sensitivity = see the central challenge and the difficulties associated with it.
Redefinition = seeing known problems in a different light.

The left side of the brain analyzes a poem, while the right side interprets the same poem.