Creativity skills
Creativity / Innovation
Guide to creative thinking by Brian Tracy
Unlocking creativity by Brian Tracy
The power of open-mindedness and curiosity in stimulating creativity (ENG)
International Center for Studies in Creativity:
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Ray Dalio: Be radically open-minded:
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CNN - Next, innovation:
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Creative thinking tools
Idea generation
2. Ideation: Brainstorming & Sketching
3. Thought Showers: Group Problem Solving
4. Write a list of 101 ideas. Open your word processor and write a laundry list of at least 101 ideas to deal with your situation. Go wild and write whatever you can think of without restricting yourself. Do not stop until you have at least 101 (Source: 25 Useful Brainstorming Techniques).
5. Mindmap
6. The Meta Sequence
"Deep (Research & Define) - The more information you expose yourself to, the more your brain has to work with. Deep dive before an ideation session and define the objective.
Wide (Creative & Divergent) - Try to minimise critical evaluation while brainstorming and exploring new ideas. Creative insights are helped by a mindset of playful curiosity.
Narrow (Critical & Convergent) - Use objective evaluation criteria where possible. The best ideas are vulnerable as they don’t conform to expectations; so don’t use critical analysis to leave only the safest ideas standing, but to find out which challenging ideas might actually be viable.
Up (Synthesise & Iterate) - Once you have an idea that works, it’s tempting to cling to it. However, the best ideas often come from having the curiosity and courage to push beyond what works to something more interesting. Keep playing to find a deeper synthesis."[1]
7. Wiktionary
Use random stimuli like reading out words from the dictionary to provoke a response, or try using the last letter of one word as the starting letter for another word. Free-associate words and concepts to spark connections.
Persepective shifts
1. Inversion
2. Another's shoes
3. Recontext
4. No limits
5. Extremify
6. Challenge