“Where
observation is concerned, chance favours only the prepared mind—Louis Pasteur.”
The Art of Creative Thinking: How to Be Innovative and Develop Great Ideas (John Adair Leadership Library)
can lead you into new paths of
creative activity. It can enrich your life—though not always in the way you
expect.
Use
the stepping stones of analogy:
“Thinking
by analogy, or analogizing, plays a key part in imaginative thinking. This is
especially so when it comes to creative thinking.”
Make
the strange familiar and the familiar strange:
“The
reverse process of making the familiar strange is equally important for
creative thinking. We do not think about what we know. Here artists can help us
to become aware of the new within the old.”
Practise
Serendipity:
“Serendipity
means finding valuable and agreeable ideas or things—or people—when you are not
consciously seeking them.
You
are more likely to be serendipitous if you have a wide span of attention and a
broad range of interests.”
Curiosity:
“
‘Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge,’ wrote the philosopher
John Locke. You should aim to retain throughout your life that eager desire to
see, learn or know. Curiosity is the mind on tiptoe.
One
way to develop your curiosity is to begin to ask more questions, both when you
are talking with others and when you are talking in your mind to yourself.”
Reading to generate
ideas:
“Nothing is worth reading that does
not require an alert mind, open and eager to learn.”
Make better use of your
depth mind:
“The
functions of the conscious mind—analysing, synthesizing and valuing—can also
take place at a deeper level. Your Depth Mind can dissect something for you,
just as your stomach juices can break down food into its elements.”
Think creatively about
your life:
“It
is not what happens to you in life that matters but how you respond. The
creative response is to transform bad things into good, problems into
opportunities.”
“Remember
the Arab proverb, ‘You should never finish building your house.’ It is
beginnings and the unfinished work to be done that excites your creative mind.”
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