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The document outlines the process of creative thinking, which includes four stages: preparation, incubation, illumination, and verification. It emphasizes the importance of understanding problems, generating ideas, and evaluating solutions. Additionally, it provides strategies for enhancing creative thinking, such as brainstorming and being aware of one's surroundings.

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Process of Creative Thinking

The document outlines the process of creative thinking, which includes four stages: preparation, incubation, illumination, and verification. It emphasizes the importance of understanding problems, generating ideas, and evaluating solutions. Additionally, it provides strategies for enhancing creative thinking, such as brainstorming and being aware of one's surroundings.

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Process

of
creative
thinking
By Maham and Evana
Activity!
The incomplete figure test is a drawing exercise. You use a
small, simple scribble, like a half-circle or loop, to create a full
drawing. To do this in a group, several people use the same
scribble to work from, and then they compare the drawings.
Seeing how others interpret the same small design can expand
your creative thinking and give you new ideas.
Activity!
• Take 30 seconds to choose three items from the list below to take
with you to a deserted island.
• Now take 2 minutes to write down what you selected and why it
will help you survive.
• Share your answers with your team.
List:
• Compass
• Knife
• Matches
• Rope
• Plastic tarp
• Camera
• Steak
• Radio
Introduction
In recent years, more and more attention has been given to
the way the human mind operates. Research has made it
clear that thinking of new and unusual ideas involve more
than a flash of insight. There are stages before and after
the new ideas come. The starting point in creative process
is the need to think or bring out something new which
initiates the effort. Not everyone experiences this need, as
one can be happy and contented, in carrying out routine
work. The need for search of new ideas and solutions arises
from sensing problems and gaps in information
1.
Preparatio
The process of creative thinking begins with the

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preparation stage that requires one to understand the
task or problem in hand, analyze the problem, and
become aware of the background facts and related
information. The process evokes curiosity and excitement
to think more and more in different directions. The person
tries to look at the task or problem from different angles
and viewpoints. Here, divergent thinking abilities
discussed earlier play their role to help one extend in
new directions.
2.
Incubation
When the person is trying to generate alternative
ideas and trying to view the problem or task from an
unusual perspective, there may be a feeling of getting
stuck. This is the stage of incubation. Research shows
that creative ideas may not occur immediately
during incubation when the individual is not
consciously thinking about the problem but seeking
relaxation from conscious effort. They may occur or
strike when a person is doing something else, for example,
going to sleep, waking up, taking a bath or just walking
along.
3.
Illumination
Followed by incubation is the stage of illumination -
the ‘Aha’! or ‘I have found it’ experience, the moment
we normally associate with emergence of
creative ideas. There usually is, a feeling of
excitement, even satisfaction, of having found
a creative idea.
4.
Verification
Last is the stage of verification when the worth or
appropriateness of ideas or solutions are tested
and judged. Here, convergent thinking plays its
role in selecting the appropriate idea or solution
that works.
Strategies for
Creative
Thinking
01
Become more aware and sensitive to be able to
notice and respond to feelings, sights, sounds,
textures around you. Spot problems, missing
information, anomalies, gaps, deficiencies, and so
on. For this, cultivate the habit of wider reading,
exposure to a variety of information, and develop
the art of asking questions, pondering over the
mysteries of situations and objects.

Generate as many ideas, responses, solutions or

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suggestions on a given task or situation to
increase your flow of thoughts. Try deliberately to
look for multiple angles of a task and situation to
increase flexibility in your thinking. For example,
thinking of alternative arrangements of furniture
in a room to generate more space, different ways
of conversing with people,
Strategies for
Creative
Thinking
03
Osborn’s Brainstorming technique can be used to
increase fluency and flexibility of ideas to open-ended
situations. Brainstorming is based on the principle that
producing ideas should be kept separate from the
evaluation of their worth. The basic assumption is to let
the minds think freely and the tendency to put
judgment on the worth of ideas may be postponed i.e.
imagination should be given priority over judgment till
all the ideas are exhausted. This helps in increasing the
fluency of ideas and piling up alternatives.

Brainstorming can be practised by playingrainstorming

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games with family members and friends keeping its
principles in mind. Use of checklists and questions often
provide a new twist for ideas like, What other changes?
What else? In how many ways could it be done? What
could be the other uses of this object? and so on.
Thank
you!

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