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Creative is just a simple short word. However, big success can be reached thanks to creative thinking such as, advances in technology, industry and other fields also happened.It’s not an exaggeration to say that creative thinking is the key of success. But how to think creatively? Here are tips you can try:
1. Think that all can be done
Rest assured, we can do it for something we are working on.Mean, we must optimist.Throw away your pessimistic expression like “I might be able to do it” then replace it with expressions full of optimism, such as “I definitely can do it” or “For me, there is no give up ” .Statement of optimistic trains us to dare dive into the problem.Thus, the thought pattern continues to develop, because of the brain being forced to make a realization of the determination.
2. Remove conservative way of thinking
The pattern was marked by fears of conservative thinking to accept the changes, although the change was an advantage. Just because of desire to maintain a conservative force the changes responded to cold and even perceived as a threat. Being felt comfortable or benefited by a conservative force, when required to change a mindset then we are afraid of disadvantage. It should be a realizable, conservative way of thinking cuts the creative thinking because the mind frozen by something static.Whereas in creative thinking, static elements should be eliminated. Start a dynamic thinking to find an effective mindset.
There are three ways to reduce or eliminate the conservative mindset :
First, open the mind for a suggestion. Suggestion is very valuable raw materials, then process them into “finished goods’ through creative thought. So, do not be afraid of ideas, proposals, even critics. Because all of that stimulate us to think creatively.
Second, try to work or think outside our skill/ field. To “enrich” ourselves, our mindset also must deal with something different than usual.
Third, should be proactive. We prosecuted to “pick up the ball” in the face of something and not “wait for the ball”. Acting proactive means to make ourselves free to choose actions based on the right calculation. This certainly could happen if we have the creativity to think.
3. Increase the quantity and quality of work.
Do not satisfy quick enough. The more satisfied means you have closed your self to other jobs that can enrich the development of your thought. Ability to accept another job, so then we open ourselves to the new challenges that we are required. Therefore, we forced to think intelligently and effectively.
Two things need to be done.First, added quantity of work.Mean, no need to complain when we rush out there other things that need to receive additional job to be done. Open mindset makes ourselves trained.Are in stressful situations we still able to think? Creative thinking which able to generate power of thought.
Second, improve the quality of the work.It’s contain meaning, no matter how small the job, we should not ignore the quality of the result.Because the quality of work is the reflection of quality of our thought. This mean, if we work with quality, it shows the quality of our thinking power and quality.The more quality job results, the more qualified our thinking patterns.
4. Improve habit of asking
Asking questions is an indicator that our minds are still “alive” and always dynamic. By asking, means we are trying to test our critic power. An asking habit should not be interpreted that we are “not understand”. However, it should be understood as the emergence of the dynamics of the mind.
Questioning is a mean of power to train creativity development. By asking, our thinking met with other people’s thinking that contain new things, so that the horizon we think to make us more widely open. Furthermore, for not fixated on the idea of trying to convince ourselves.Whether our thinking in line or same with other people’s thinking ? This makes us more creative by trying to be open to ideas from the outside.
5. Become a good listener
Being a good listener can listen to information from the outside. With it so we have a “wealth”, a lot of opportunities to think about what we hear. If we want to respond to what we hear, there are already available many of the concepts of mind to be used. Being a good listener means that it knows any information coming into the horizon of mind. We are required to think creatively, so that we could respond as desired.
These are all very good pieces of advice. Additionally, look at nature and think laterally.
I took a lot of inspiration for valve design and rotating machinery design from watching the River Wharfe in Yorkshire. The river clearly demonstrates the exchange of static energy and velocity energy as it flows through the rocks of the river bed. Tree leaves demonstrate the resistance of the air as they gracefully glide to the ground. Dark coloured objects get hotter than 70 Celsius in direct sunlight. Dry snow falls to the ground slower than wet snow. I could go on and on …
Great addition! and yes the list could be very long :) For me,sometimes I find new inspiration by going to some places or just to refreshing my mind .From different point of view including science,nature gives a lot of inspiration.