May 02, 2017
Why Use a Creative Thinking Technique?
If you have ever jump started your car in the winter with a pair of jumper cables you already know why it makes sense to use a creative thinking technique: to spark your ability to arrive at your preferred destination.
Sometimes, to get you moving, a spark is needed -- a jolt -- and that's where creative thinking techniques come in.
All of us, no matter where we live and what we do for a living, are creative. We are. It's built in. The problem is, for many of us, our creativity peaked when we were five years old. Since then, it's been a slow and steady decline into conformity and conventionality. Our innate creativity has, all-too-often, gotten buried, neglected, and ignored. Like a car engine in winter, it sometimes goes cold. So cold, in fact, that we can't figure out how to get it started again.
 Applied in the right way at the right time, creative thinking techniques have the power to re-start your creative engine and get you cruising towards your destination -- able to far more reliably generate bold new ideas, solutions, and non-obvious possibilities.
Bottom line, creative thinking techniques give you access to your own buried genius. And sometimes it takes less than 60 seconds.
You don't need to be an Einstein to use a creative thinking technique, just willing to challenge the status quo, go beyond your assumptions, and be open to conjuring up some bold, new possibilities. Ready?
Here one of our techniques
Here's another
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Posted by Mitch Ditkoff at May 2, 2017 02:00 PM
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