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025: Mastering Creative Thinking: Two Techniques to Make Creative Thinking Stick

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Creativity can be learned, and there are patterns you can use to generate creative ideas. If you’ve listened to our previous episodes, you’re pretty much familiar with the 5 patterns of systematic inventive thinking or SIT method by now. In this episode you’ll hear: Scientific study on creativity . Practical tips.

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Episode 075: Contradictions: A Pathway to Creative Thinking

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The next time you’re facing a contradiction, you’ll be equipped to handle it with confidence and even a boost in creativity. Resources from this episode: Downloadable scorecard to rate your idea. I’m going to help you navigate this very common situation. In this episode you’ll hear: Some examples of contradictions we face every day.

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Episode 079: Is There a Magic Pill For Creative Thinking?

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Can you really learn to be more creative? Imagine if you went to a meeting with your colleagues and you all got ready to just pop a pill in your mouth, a magic creativity, pill, and voila! . In this episode, you’ll learn how different drugs can help (or impair) your creativity. . Downloadable scorecard to rate your idea.

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Struggling to Be Creative? Think of Creativity as Exploring an Amusement Park

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Struggling to be creative? Think about reigniting your creativity as a day at an amusement park. All the ways you have been creative up until now are the amusement park rides. All the ways you have been creative up until now are the amusement park rides. You’ll have your creativity back! Make a list of them.

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16 Creative Thinking Questions from the Most Innovative Companies

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It’s always a wonderful inspiration for strategic and creative thinking questions (plus it’s exciting that we have a current client among the companies recognized). 16 Creative Thinking Questions from the Most Innovative Companies. 16 Creative Thinking Questions from the Most Innovative Companies.

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3 Ways to Find Strong Creative Thinking Skills in Logic-Oriented Groups

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I was talking with someone who was wondering aloud about how to boost the creative thinking skills of a group made up primarily of fact- and logic-driven individuals. Think accountants, engineers, compliance officers, and others in right-wrong answer professions. What a great (and challenging) question. via Shutterstock.

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Episode 038: Boost Creative Thinking By Being Specific – Ten Tips to Generate Better Ideas

Innovation in Practice

Creativity is nothing more than combining two things in an unexpected way. For example, if you mash peanut butter and jelly together, it may taste great, but it’s not very creative. In it, I am going to be sharing 10 different scenarios that clearly explain how to pick items to mash together to produce a creative output.