Creativity and innovation is not about adding more pieces – but connecting, uniting, and integrating until something new emerges (and functions better).
A few ways to start thinking more creatively include:
- * defining the purpose and intent
* masterminding and brainstorming
* using both divergent and convergent thinking
* asking both open (fishing) and closed (shooting) questions
* using provocation, extraction, and random entry
* exploring and organizing possibilities and alternatives
* considering what believed to wrong, false, or impossible
* speculating and asking what if
* using parallel lateral thinking – and experimentation
* changing criteria or value selection (hierarchy)
* looking from multiple perspectives
* systematically switch (all 6) thinking hats
* gathering additional information
* allowing emotional and intuitive responses
* looking for patterns and relationships
* looking for similarity and difference (compare and contrast)
* zooming in and zooming out (increasing or decreasing scope)
* categorizing and uncategorizing (generalities and exceptions)
* considering cause and effect, requirements and results
* inverting (turning things inside out) or reversing
* developing analogies
* extrapolating and transferring concepts and principles
* building upon and extending
* oversimplifying
* differentiating and integrating aspects and options
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