'The East students are not as creative as the West', you might heard the saying a lot but couldn't argue, is this a truth or just a stereotype? What is creative thinking? And why does it matter?
When the apple fell down on Newton's head, he discovers Law of Universal Gravitation,while for me, maybe just cheering for free apple; When Edison failed thousands of times but still working on the experiment, which brings us lights, while for me, maybe give up easily thinking nothing can burn that long; When I read all the cases in IDEO, where an awful lot of creative solutions were given, I almost drop my jaw, surprised by all the amazing and brilliant ideas. How can some people think so different and creative?
We appreciate innovation, creative, and creative thinking, but honestly, what's all meaning of them and what's the difference? Does innovation means to create something new? I always like a quote in The Bible,'There's nothing new under the sun', while if there's nothing new, then where's the innovation come from? Is it possible about replacement? Just like there's a bird in the sky, and we place it with machine, then here comes the plane. There's beehive out there, and we place them with hotel room, then here comes the capsule hotel; is it possible about math?Just like bike plus battery, here comes electrically operated bike, and phone plus television, here comes video phone.
Creative thinking is an innate talent that you were born with and a set of skills that can be learned, developed, and utilized in daily problem solving; Creativity bringing into existence an idea that is new to you, and innovation is the practical application of creative ideas. It seems possible that we do not form new ideas out of nothing, only the creative minds can see possibilities in them or connections among them, and a creative thinker is to combine ideas or elements that are already exist.
This book mentioned 86 points of creative thinking, and it seems no connection between them, just like stars scattering in the sky, while every star to be one part of the starry night. I make a list of them, choose the star you like to read through and form your own starry night.
1.See what happens when you make something happen
2.Be a beginner, for ever
3.Blame Michelangelo
4.Be the medium of your medium
5.Don’t be someone else
6.Be a generator
7.Be committed to commitment
8.Be positive about negatives
9.Be practically useless
10.Don’t think about what others think about
11.Be perceptive about perception
12.Doubt everything all the time
13.Feel inadequate
14.Be naturally inspired
15.Don’t be an expert on yourself
16.Be stubborn about compromise
17.Be a weapon of mass creation
18.Get into what you’re into
19.Cut it out
20.Grow old without growing up
21.I fit ain’t broke, break it
22.Pick yourself up
23.Challenge the challenging
24.Find out how to find out
25.Leave an impression
26.Design a difference
27.Beas incompetent as possible
28.Be mature enough to be childish
29.Maintain momentum
30.Aspire to have no goals
31.Make the present a present
32.Open your mind
33.Pause for thoughtlessness
34.Plan to have more accidents
35.If you can’t be really good, be really bad
36.Be a conservative revolutionary
37.Raise the dead
38.Work the hours that work for you
39.Search without finding
40.Don’t overlook the overlooked
41.Put the right thing in the wrong place
42.Stay hungry
43.Surprise yourself
44.Take advantage of a disadvantage
45.Throw truth bombs
46.Suspend judgement
47.Throw yourself into yourself
48.Use shock and awe
49.Value obscurity
50.If something doesn’t need improving, improve it
51.Value shared values
52.Light a fire in your mind
53.Discover how to discover
54.To stand out, work out what you stand for
55.To achieve something, do nothing
56.Search high and low
57.Get into credit
58.Mine your mind
59.Look forward to disappointment
60.Think with your feelings
61.Bring chaos to order
62.Takewhat you need
63.Remake,then remake the remake
64.Becurious about curiosity
65.Becomeanonymous
66.Achievethe perfect work-life balance
67.Makewhat you say unforgettable
68.Don’texperiment, be an experiment
69.Stopmissing opportunities
70.Contradictyourself more often
71.Takejokes seriously
72.Lookover the horizon
73.Gofrom A to B via Z
74.Immerseyourself
75.Neverleave improvisation to chance
76.Rejectacceptance and accept rejection
77.Beas annoying as possible
78.Cross-pollinate
79.Stayplayful
80.Don’tbe recessive in a recession
81.Projectyourself into the future
82.Getout of your mind
83.Boxyour way out of boxes
84.Tolearn, teach
85.Bean everyday radical
86.Makefreedom a career
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