Creative Thinking: The Importance Of Creativity?

Creative thinking involves imagining familiar things in a new light, digging below the surface to find previously undetected patterns and finding connections among unrelated patterns (Roger von Oech. Expect the Unexpected).

Creativity is a process of having original ideas that have value. A big part of being creative is looking for new ways of doing things within whatever activity an individual is involved in. The most creative teacher displays a great deal of curiosity about many things; constantly asking questions about anything and everything; able to determine the main problems even in an extremely disarray situation and generate a large number of ideas or solutions to problems in often unusual, unique and clever manner.

Many of the characteristics

Creative people, to an extent, escape rigid gender role stereotyping.

Creative people are both rebellious and conservative.

Most creative people are very passionate about their work, yet they can be extremely objective about it as well.

Creative people’s openness and sensitivity often exposes them to suffering and pain, yet also to a great deal of enjoyment.

In many of our experiences, restriction can hurt creativity but not at all times. In writing articles founded upon broad themes or matters, I work well with the restriction of at least 1500 words, which for me is always enough to state and defend my arguments. I can make my way around the 1200 but not with 700 word limit. At first, I was skeptical, even thinking of it as an oppression against ideas worth mentioning, a requirement that is mentally excruciating. But surprisingly, the parameter led me to some creative workarounds. Instead of presenting the article with plain words, I also used images, graphics and tables which are not included in the word count. It did not only promoted cohesion and relevance but most of all, creativity. From then on, I learned that creativity comes from working in unexpected circumstances and stepping outside our own comfort