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CREATIVE THINKING CRITERIA
- Generate impossible ideas
- Brainstorm and map thoughts to create ideas and questions
- Consider all alternatives
- Consider the seemingly impossible
- Create novel solutions to a problem
- Evaluate solutions to problems
- Make connections between random things
- Consider opposites to renew perspective
- Apply strategies of guesswork
- Generate “what if?” questions
- Transfer and apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products or processes
- Utilize old ideas in new ways and combine parts in new ways
- Make intuitive judgments
- Create original works and ideas and visualize alternatives
- Practise imitation of works with a focus on the creative process
- Practise flexible thinking— arguing both sides of an idea or issue
- Practise metaphorical thinking, generating questions and challenging conventions
- Challenge one’s own and others’ assumptions
- Seeing possibilities, problems and challenges positively
- Playing with ideas and experimenting
- Recognizing when an original idea has value and pursuing it
CREATIVE THINKING RESOURCES
