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solutions are tested and judged. Here, convergent thinking plays its role in selecting the appropriate idea or solution that works. Strategies for Creative Thinking Research on characteristics of creative people has revealed that there are certain attitudes, dispositions, and skills which facilitate creative thinking. Here are some strategies to help you enhance your creative thinking abilities and skills: • Become more aware and sensitive to be able to notice and respond to feelings, sights, sounds, textures around you. Spot problems, missing information, anomalies, Fig.7.5 : The Creative Process gaps, deficiencies, and so on. Try to notice contradictions and incompleteness in requiresonetounderstandthe taskorproblem situations that others may not do. For this, in hand, analyse the problem, and become cultivate the habit of wider reading, exposure to a variety of information, and aware of the background facts and related information. The process evokes curiosity and develop the art of asking questions, excitement to think more and more in different pondering over the mysteries of situations directions. The person tries to look at the task and objects. or problem from different angles and • Generate as many ideas, responses, solutions or suggestions on a given task or viewpoints. Here, divergent thinking abilities situation to increase your flow of thoughts. discussed earlier play their role to help one extend in new directions. Try deliberately to look for multiple angles Coming back to the process, when the of a task and situation to increase flexibility person is trying to generate alternative ideas in your thinking. It could be, for example, thinking of alternative arrangements of and trying to view the problem or task from an furniture in a room to generate more space, unusual perspective, there may be a feeling of different ways of conversing with people, getting stuck. One may even get disgusted with failure and may leave the problem or the task looking for costs and benefits of a course for sometime. This is the stage of incubation. of study or career, looking for ways of dealing with an angry friend, helping Research shows that creative ideas may not others, etc. occur immediately during incubation when the • Osborn’s Brainstorming technique can be individual is not consciously thinking about the problem but seeking relaxation from used to increase fluency and flexibility of conscious effort. They may occur or strike ideas to open-ended situations. Brainstorming is based on the principle when a person is doing something else, for that producing ideas should be kept example, going to sleep, waking up, taking a separate from the evaluation of their worth. bath or just walking along. Followed by incubation is the stage of illumination - the The basic assumption is to let the minds think freely and the tendency to put ‘Aha’! or ‘I have found it’ experience, the judgment on the worth of ideas may be momentwenormallyassociatewithemergence postponed,i.e.imaginationshouldbegiven of creative ideas. There usually is, a feeling of priority over judgment till all the ideas are excitement, even satisfaction, of having found exhausted. This helps in increasing the a creative idea. Last is the stage of verification fluency of ideas and piling up alternatives. when the worth or appropriateness of ideas or Brainstorming can be practised by playing 119 Chapter 7 • Thinking Reprint 2026-27