Creativity 02 Flashcards
CRITICAL THINKING
Improvement in thinking is unlikely to take place in the absence of a conscious commitment to learn
STAGES OF CRITICAL THINKING DEVELOPMENT
Unreflective Thinker, Challenged Thinker, Beginning Thinker, Practicing Thinker, Advanced Thinker, Thinker Accomplished
Unreflective Thinker
We are unaware of significant problems in our thinking
Challenged Thinker
We are faced with significant problems in our thinking
Beginning Thinker
We try to improve without regular practice
Practicing Thinker
We regularly practice and advance accordingly
Advanced Thinker
We are commited to lifelong practice and are beginning to internalize intellectual virtues
Accomplished Thinker
Intellectual skills and virtues have become second nature in our lives
UNREFLECTIVE THINKER
At this stage, many problems in our lives are caused by poor thinking,
but we are unaware of this.
At this stage, we unconsciously deceive ourselves in many ways.
UNREFLECTIVE THINKER
We create and maintain pleasant illusions.
Because our beliefs seem reasonable to us, we believe them with confidence.
We walk about the world with confidence that things really are the way they appear to us.
We judge some people to be “good” and some to be “bad.”
We approve of some actions and disapprove of others.
Although we don’t realize it, our egocentric tendencies at this stage play a dominant role in our thinking.
UNREFLECTIVE THINKER
We lack the skills and the motivation to notice
how self-centered and prejudiced we are, how often we stereotype others, how frequently we dismiss ideas irrationally simply because we don’t want to change our behavior or our comfortable way of looking at things.
THE CHALLENGED THINKER
As we become aware that “normal” thinkers often think poorly, we move into the second stage of critical thinking development, the Challenged Thinker.
THE CHALLENGED THINKER
We begin to notice that we often
make questionable assumptions;
use false, incomplete, or misleading information;
make inferences that do not follow from the evidence we have;
fail to recognize important implications in our thought;
fail to recognize problems we have;
THE CHALLENGED THINKER
At this point in your development self-deception is a distinct danger
At this point you begin to recognize that poor thinking is dangereous, even life threatening
THE BEGINNING THINKER
This is a stage of downing realizations and of developing will power. This is a stage of emerging consciousness.
BELIEVE LESS – UNDERSTAND MORE
THE BEGINNING THINKER
As thinkers thinking about thinking, we are merely beginning to
• analyze the logic of situations and problems;
• express clear and precise questions;
• check information for accuracy and relevance;
• distinguish between raw information and someone’s interpretation of it;
• recognize assumptions guiding inferences;
THE BEGINNING THINKER
We are beginning to appreciate the value of examining our thinking in terms of its clarity, accuracy, relevance, precision, logicalness, justifiability, breadth, depth, and fairness, but we are still at a low level of proficiency in these abilities. They feel awkward to us.
THE BEGINNING THINKER
our values must begin to shift
explore the foundation of our thinking
discover how we have come to think and believe as we do.
THE PRACTICING THINKER
commit yourselves to daily practice in thinking well. Development of the human mind is; (like human body) GOOD THEORY GOOD PRACTICE GOOD FEEDBACK
Curiosity + Creativity + Critical thinking = Robust Problem Solving
Curiosity is at the core of creative thinking.
And it’s creative thinking combined with critical thinking that gives all of us the best chance at becoming super problem solvers
critical thinking
more analytical
the part of your brain questioning and analyzing based on what it knows.
It asks straightforward questions such as, what, and why, or how
creative thinking
about the brain connecting bits of information in your brain in new and interesting ways, and then asking questions such as, what if, or why not.
These bits of information– we’ll call them dots for now– are the things we’ve seen or learned over time.
Curiosity
Curiosity will supply you with more bits of information (dots)
(the things we’ve seen or learned over time)
The more dots we have, the more likely it is we can come up with
Curiosity is the core of creative thinking
reative solutions
How do you stay curious to build up your bank of dots of information?
always challenge what you see and hear, might both be the easiest and the hardest curiosity tip. It’s very easy to accept what you’re seeing or have seen as a way things have been or should be. But the truly curious brain always seeks more information
potential benefits of curiosity
it’s a great way to keep your mind active rather than passive
it makes you open to new ideas and expands your mental horizons
it can make life, well, more interesting, even exciting
how curiosity leads to creativity
When you are curious about something, your mind expects and anticipates new ideas related to it
When the ideas start flowing, the brain will recognize them for what they are, opportunities for new thinking and new ways of looking at things.
Without curiosity, the ideas may pass right in front of you and you won’t notice because you’re not mentally ready to recognize them
two advice for curiosity
try to ask people.
If you can talk to someone who knows what you’re looking for and they explain it to you, it’s much more likely you remember what you’ve learned, and much more likely to make connections to other things you know.
CREATIVITY
Creativity is in all of us. It just needs encouraging.
Creative thinking is a divergent type of thinking.
almost all companies believe there’s a strong connection between creativity and business success.
divergent type of thinking.
It’s our brains going off in different directions.
It would do us no good as a species if we all thought alike.
It’s the same divergent thinking that ultimately improves our critical thinking.
CREATIVITY
“The ability to transcend traditional ideas, rules, and patterns, and to create meaningful new ideas.“
Creativity is in all of us, although it may be hidden away in some dark corner some of us have not visited in a very long time.
Education might work against creativity
Our education and the need to feel like we are, “getting things right” means we’ve slowly been sucked into the world of convergent thinking– we want to be right. We want to fit in.
So we focus on the known, the understood, the “right”.
These are the very antithesis of creative thinking, the opposites of the unruly world of divergent thinking.
DIFFERENT THINKING for CREATIVITY
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Creativity is somewhat dependent on understanding the different parts of the thinking process,
Which necessitates “different thinking”
DIFFERENT THINKING
A lot of academicians explored and proposed different modes of thinking,
sometimes ; “layers of thinking
layers of thinking
Divergent Thinking - Convergent Thinking
Concrete Thinking - Abstract Thinking
Thick Thinking - Thin Thinking
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You shouldn’t sacrifice one mode of thinking neglecting the other,
you cannot succeed by focusing
on one at the expense of the other
Divergent thinking
CREATING CHOICES
is such things as imagination, creativity, and coming up with the new and the possible.
It’s about expanding the possible number of solutions, not rejecting any idea out of hand.
It’s about being open and forcing the brain to be open to all possibilities.
Convergent thinking
MAKING CHOICES
is about making judgments, evaluating, sometimes even testing, and making decisions.
It’s about rating, making sense of the various ideas, and ultimately clarifying the thinking.
Abstract thinking
is thinking about an aspect of the problem in broad, abstract terms, and let your mind wander where it wants to go.
Concrete thinking
is orientation to find the “the only one best solution”.
Thick thinking
encourages more thoughtful questions and therefore more diverse thinking– questions such as, what if? What would happen if?
Thin thinking
is essentially asking the most basic questions– who, what, where, when, why, and how.
META THINKING
Metacognition is thinking about thinking
(or “management of thinking” if you like)
It literally means knowing
"what we know" and "what we don't know.
METACOGNITIVE STRATEGIES
Connecting new information to what we know,
Deliberately selecting thinking strategies
Planning and evaluating our thinking processes
4 levels of thinking;(increasingly metacognitive)
Tacit
Aware
Strategic
Reflective (Leads to wisdom)
tacit
This is where we do some every-day thinking without really thinking about that process.
Aware
This is when we are aware that we are thinking about something in a particular way as we are doing that thinking.
Strategic
This is when we consciously plan to think about a problem or situation in a specific or several specific ways.
Reflective (Leads to wisdom)
This is the highest level of metacognition and is where we reflect on our thinking before or after we have done that thinking as a way to consider both how to proceed and how to improve the thinking.
