When we see the words “creative” and “creative thinking”, we usually imagine creative people who paint pictures or make mysterious installations. A banana stuck on the wall — that’s creativity for you, and we, ordinary people, do not understand, we are not creative. But creative thinking is necessary and inherent not only to artists. 

Creative thinking helps with the generation of ideas and solutions. Many methods of creative thinking specifically protect us from logic and criticism so that we come up with a new solution. Sometimes the solution can be optimal, and sometimes innovative. Creativity helps to find a way out of difficult situations, save resources and even create businesses. It helps to go beyond and generate many solutions, rather than looking for the right one. I’ve met a lot of people who couldn’t come up with multiple solutions to the same problem. Sometimes even one solution was not found. For those who did not want to, this is a problem of motivation, and for those who wanted to, but experienced difficulties, there is good news.

People have convergent and divergent thinking. In other words, productive and creative thinking. Convergent thinking helps to find one solution to a problem, while divergent thinking is aimed at finding many alternative solutions. At one interview, I was asked to come up with three different uses for a pencil. I was stopped at ten options and praised that I was the first candidate out of eight who named more than five options. Divergent thinking helped me with the pencil. By the way, a couple of hours before the interview, it also helped me break the pencil into four parts and insert it into four holes of the wall cabinet to secure the shelf. Divergent thinking helps to cross the properties of objects, processes and services, transfer properties from one to another, as well as abstract from classes and categories in order to generate new ideas at a non-standard level. Otherwise, creative thinking can be called ingenuity. It is applicable everywhere and is always with you.

Today you need to answer at the interview what you would do if you became a coin placed in a blender, and tomorrow come up with a solution for business or get out of a difficult situation. It is not for nothing that the skill of creative thinking is included in the top of popular soft skills. People who are able to solve complex problems and can put “and” instead of “or” will always be appreciated in the labor market.

“Yes, you need to have a clear mind to think deeply, but sometimes you need to be a little crazy, thinking in a completely different direction”

Nikola Tesla

 

 

 

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