Creativity Flashcards
Creativity
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Inspiration
research and generate ideas
Clarification
narrow your focus on the goals you wish to achieve
Evaluation
review what you have done and learn
Distillation
decide which of the ideas work
Incubation
which you leave the work alone for a period
Perspiration
where you work hard on getting the work done
Socrates
the teacher of Plato
Socratic method
series of questions are posed to students to draw their own knowledge and beliefs regarding a particular issue.
Plato
student of Socrates. founder of the first institution in the western world
Platonism
primarily concerned with his focus on the intellectual consequences of the denial of reality, or that which we know as fact.
Aristotle
pupil of Plato. founder of formal logic
tenet of Aristotle’s
Deductive reasoning (or what we more commonly refer to as top-down logic) is where we conclude after considering general statements.
De Bono
way of thinking where all views, regardless of how contradictory or ‘mad’ they may appear, are placed in parallel, thus designing a way forward for problem-solving.
The Six Thinking Hats method
highly efficient, and robust method for problem-solving.
White hat
FACTS . opportunity to separate information from judgment
Red hat
FEELINGS. express feelings, hunches, and intuitions as they exist and not force judgment. It offers a formal and defined channel for intuition.
Black hat
epitome of critical thinking and points out contradictions and inconsistencies
Yellow hat
thinker deliberately sets out to find the benefits in a situation and how it might be possible to put ideas into practice.
Green hat
offers new ideas, new approaches and further alternatives.
Blue hat
about overview - thinking about thinking. Importantly, the blue hat enables focus, definition and task setting.
Problem-solving
Finding and implemeting solution to problems and teamwork
Find the right cause
reviewing every element of an issue so you can get to a solution or fix it.
There are several ways to tackle problems. We’ll be looking at IDEAL.
-Identify the problem
-Define the problem
-Examine the options
-Act on a plan
-Look at the consequences.
Analytical ability
The ability to:
visualise
gather information
articulate
analyse
solve problems
make decisions.
Lateral thinking
The ability to:
* think creatively
* think outside the box
* discard the obvious
* avoid traditional thought models
* throw away preconceptions.
Initiative
The ability to:
-Come up with a new plan or process to achieve something or solve a problem.
-Use ones judgement to make decision without being told what to do.
-Gain advantages
Logical reasoning
This is the process of thinking about a problem in a logical way to arrive at a conclusion.
deductive reasoning
inductive reasoning
abductive reasoning.
Persistence
-The personal quality that makes someone able to continue to do something or resolve a problem even when encountering severe difficulties
-The state of occuring or existing beyond normal or expected time.
Deductive reasoning
psychological process of drawing deductive inferences.
Inductive reasoning
make predictions about future events or as-yet unobserved phenomena.
Abductive
there is no clear explanation of the observations
5 Steps of Creative Process
ref: https://www.linkedin.com/learning/the-five-step-creative-process/objective-finding-during-the-creative-process?autoSkip=true&autoplay=true&resume=false&u=43268076
1.Objective finding
2.Data gathereing
3.Problem design
4.Ideation
5.Selection
Objective finding
-What is your goal?
-What will solving this problem ultimately do?
Start to identifying what you want to happen when you solve the problem.
“Wouldn’t it be great if?”
- What are all of the problems you would need to be solved from that state to come true?
- What solution would you need to get for each of those problems?
- Where can you find those solutions?
after you answer this you can move to the next stage “Data Gathering”
Data gathering
-Facts
-Feelings
-New questions
Facts:
What is the recent history of this problem?
What has made it a problem?
Who is involved?
Who are the people who will benefit from this solution?
What has been successful to this point , and why?
What has failed to this point and why?
What hasn’t been tried to this point , and why?
What are the obstacles that stands in your way?
What obstacles might arise?
What are the restrictions inherent to this problem?
Problem solving
-Will solving this problem lead to my objective?
If YES->4.Ideation
If No->Alter the problem or design a new one.
Is the problem I am solving too broad to lead to the objective I want?
Is the problem I am solving too specific to lead to the objective I want?
Ideation
-Generate multiple possibilities
Connection exercise
Produce discussion points
Structure of story
Selection
