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Creative Thinking Strategies

What is Creative Thinking?


Creative thinking is the ability to look at things differently, and find new ways of
solving problems. Creative thinking skills are definitely not just for 'creative types'
like artists and musicians. Everyone can benefit from creative thinking from time to
time.

Examples of creative thinking skills include: problem solving, writing, visual art,
communication skills, and open-mindedness.

Five Strategies to Become a More Creative Thinker:-

 Develop Creative Courage:


Many people lack the courage to use a creative approach in their workplace. Almost all creative
people feel inadequate in some way, but it is how they deal with that feeling of inadequacy that
is important. For example, artist Chuck Close was paralyzed from the neck down but used this
disadvantage to transform the way he worked and make his paintings even more interesting.
Almost everyone suffers from some kind of disadvantage, but creative thinking can show you
how to have the courage to transform it into an advantage.

 Be a Life Long Reader:


The pace of change in our culture has an enormous benefit—we must constantly change and
reinvent ourselves. Those who remain static sink. Because everything is constantly being
updated and modernized, we must constantly update ourselves to keep up.

 Achieve a Work/Life Balance:


Creative people choose a lifestyle and then try to work out what they have to do to achieve it.

 Listen to feedback:
Creative people are able to listen to criticism, assess it and then act on it.

 Steal ideas:
Creative people often remake a work that has inspired and impressed them. In remaking it, they
transform it into something new. Creative thinkers are not magicians who conjure ideas from
nowhere. They have processes and methods.

Let’s Go Through Some Activities Regarding Creative Thinking-


 6 Thinking Hats
 Problem Finding-How Might We?
 The Round Robin Exercise
 Opposite Thinking
Nobody is smarter than everybody because groups create more options than individual ideas
that are aggregated. Any group or individual is known to make a higher quality decision
when provided with more options.
Lets take a Topic For Example : “Hunger” and then work on this Hats

White Hat: with this thinking hat, you focus on the available data. Look at the information
that you have, analyze past trends, and see what you can learn from it.
Look for gaps in your knowledge, and try to either fill them or take account of them.

Set the context that we will be looking at this problem in India.

Write down all the facts you know or need to know about the problem. For hunger, it could be
as simple as “Number of children sleeping hungry at night”, “Number of malnourished
children”. Don’t google this information.
DON’T WRITE DOWN PROBLEMS YET.

Red Hat: "wearing" the Red Hat, you look at problems using your intuition, gut
reaction, and emotion. Also, think how others could react emotionally.* Try to
understand the responses of people who do not fully know your reasoning.
How do people feel about the problem that you have picked? How did they feel when they
encountered it. How will they feel if they overcome it? For example, for hunger, children
feel “weak”, people who throw away food feel “guilty”, etc.

Black Hat: Using Black Hat thinking, look at a decision's potentially negative outcomes. Look
at it cautiously and defensively. Try to see why it might not work.* This is important because it
highlights the weak points in a plan. It allows you to eliminate them, alter them, or prepare
contingency plans to counter them. Play the devil's advocate.

Now write down all the specific challenges surrounding this problem.

For example, for hunger, Food is thrown away that could be given to poor. Children go to school
for midday meals but don’t get dinner.

Yellow Hat: This hat helps you to think positively. It is the optimistic viewpoint that helps you
to see all the benefits of decisions and the value in it.* Yellow Hat thinking helps you to keep
going when everything looks gloomy and di cult.
Think about what happens when you solve this problem and its specific challenges.
For example, for hunger, less food would need to be wasted, the economy would benefit, etc.

Green Hat: The Green Hat represents creativity. This is where you develop creative solutions to a
problem.* It is a freewheeling way of thinking, in which there is little criticism of ideas. (You can
explore a range of other tools to help you.)

Write down your ideas for solving these problems and achieving the yellow hat outcomes

Blue Hat: This Hat controls the Start and End of remaining Hats
Now Connect this all Hats in the form of Mind Map.

A mind map is an easy way to brainstorm thoughts organically without


worrying about order and structure. It allows you to visually structure
your ideas to help with analysis and recall.

Source : https://mgrush.com/blog/debono-six-thinking-hats/
How Might We

How Might We Action What for Whom in order to Change Something

“How might we” (HMW) questions are short questions that launch
ideation. They’re broad enough to include a wide range of solutions but
narrow enough to impose helpful boundaries.
How Might We

Challenge: Redesign the ground experience at the local international airport

Picture this: Troubled mother of three, rushing through the airport only to wait hours
at the gate, needs to entertain her playful children because “annoying little brats”
only irritate already frustrated fellow passengers.

How Might We
Amp up the good: HMW use the kids’ energy to entertain fellow
passenger? Remove the bad: HMW separate the kids from fellow
passengers?

Explore the opposite: HMW make the wait the most exciting part of the
trip? Question an assumption: HMW entirely remove the wait time at
the airport? Go after adjectives: HMW we make the rush refreshing
instead of harrying?

ID unexpected resources: HMW leverage free time of fellow passengers to share the load?
Create an analogy from need or context: HMW make the airport like a spa? Like a
playground? Play against the challenge: HMW make the airport a place that kids want to go?

Change a status quo: HMW make playful, loud kids less annoying?

Break POV into pieces: HMW entertain kids? HMW slow a mom down? HMW mollify delayed
passengers?

How Might We Action What for Whom in order to Change Something


Problem Finding

Vote for the top 3 How Might We questions


Round Robin
 Take your HMW and come up with a wild idea
that could be an unconventional solution
 Pass the Post to the Person on your Left
 Write down a reason why the proposal
will fail
 Write down a way to resolve the
critique

Opposite Thinking
 Describe the assumption you have about your concept or domain
For instance, when designing a chair, you can list the
assumptions of a chair
(it needs to have Legs)

 Now think the opposite of the assumption- what would


happen if this were no longer true/necessary
…think of its opposite (no legs?!)…

 Describe a new service, o ering, improvement out of the opposite

to trigger additional ideas: what if chairs were hangi are from the
Ceiling

Google Quiz :
Click on Below link –
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdH6fpStHnz66sDOFmBQ
vP0AY2kf2g3FEa1-AoQs_e5A9DV2w/viewform?usp=sf_link

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