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Creative Thinking

Written by  Rachit Agrawal, MBA

Published on Sat, February 29, 2020 9:02 AM   Updated on Fri, October 16, 2020 7:44 AM   3 mins read

Creative thinking is not only a skill but a very rare talent, not in everyone around us. Creative skills are not only embedded in prestigious famous artists, painters, or musicians. The asset of creativity can be in the minds of students sitting at the backbench, an employee sitting hours in front of his computer, or even YOU! Thinking creativity can always help in budding new ideas to complete a task. Creative thinking can be a beneficial asset and can even create the learning process fun for you.

Creative thinkers can constantly imagine. Imagination is a valuable asset they hold. The ability to imagine how a machine work, how thing work, or how a job is done generally. Thinking creativity does require effort. To create innovation for tomorrow or even solve tasks, creative thinking is very necessary when thinking or understanding how things work around, solving an issue, or create something new, the skill of creative thinking is required.

How does thinking creativity help?

Most of the creative thinkers can create mind maps or illusions, or even a lot using colors. Creative thinking will enable you to get your work. People who think creatively often just fish out new ideas. One can even stimulate the seed of creative thinking always. 

How to grow in terms of thinking creatively?

Go out to meet new people. Taking active participation, meeting people daily, and doing new activities can help you think more. Meeting diverse people will help you to think and act. Meeting new people from different traditions and backgrounds can help you to know their lifestyle and even the challenges they face every day.

Get your hands dirty. If you are getting a new opportunity to work, then it will make your brain think and work more. Doing activities daily and learning can be an exercise for your brain. Learn a new skill or even train in something.

Challenge yourself every day/. Studies have even shown that those who challenge themselves in their daily lives or even challenging everyday stereotypes can help someone in thinking creatively. Challenging yourself can make you think in a conventional way to help you to be more creative.

Put yourself in more areas that require you to think. The majority of artists have the skill of thinking creatively every day. Even visiting concerts, or engaging yourself in activities of music, dance, art or even theatre can help you to think more creatively every day.

Brain Exercises

Brain exercise is not physical exercise that will require you to go out, make yourself tired. Brainstorming for ideas can be one of the brain exercises. There are some exercises that you can do to think more creatively.

Completing the incomplete figure. This will help you to think more and work more. 

  1. Thinking of alternative things you can do with a product
  2. Best out of waste
  3. Looking away from something you could be working on
  4. Concentration on the number of things

About the Author & Expert

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Rachit Agrawal

Author • MBA • 20 Years

Rachit believes in the power of education and has studied from the top institutes of IIIT Allahabad, IIM Calcutta, and Francois Rabelias in France. He has worked as Software Developer with Microsoft and Adobe. Post his MBA, he worked with the world's # 1 consulting firm, The Boston Consulting Group across multiple geographies US, South-East Asia and Europe.

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