Abundance Mentality
Supporting, extending and connecting the ideas of other people as opposed to a rivalrous approach to solving a problem.Divergent Thinking
Challenging accepted assumptions and ideas.Conjecture
Making guesses where there is missing information or uncertainty.Brainstorming
Allowing ideas to quickly flow without validation.Preserving Ambiguity
Delaying the imposition of assumptions and constraints until the last possible moment.Creativity of Constraints
Imposing constraints that are designed to spark creativity. For example, ruling out obvious solutions to a problem.Design Thinking
Viewing all strategy, problem solving and decision making as a process of design. That is to say, a process of creating something.Counterfactual Thinking
Thinking about how the world would be different if historical facts were changed. For example, considering what the world would be like if the airplane hadn't been invented or gravity didn't exist.Abstraction
Thinking in concepts that differ from concrete reality.Analogy
Reducing complex things to simpler analogies.Thought Experiment
Supporting, refuting or validating ideas with thought experiments.Storytelling
Wrapping ideas in stories. Many inventions that exist today first appeared in fiction.Overview: Creative Thinking | ||
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Definition | The process of thinking in a flexible, flowing and original way. | |
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