5 effective tools for the development of creativity

Many are on the Internet special tests to find out what kind of hemisphere have dominated, left or right, dominated by a tendency to logic and creativity. You can be sure for a long time, that you love one and hates another, that are talented in one area, but will not achieve anything in the other. You do so once decided and since then consider this unshakeable truth.

"What is this - you ask - who it worse?" The short answer: you. You limit yourself caged stereotypes, which gives a sense of comfort. But it is also a barrier between you and the new, bright, interesting - your creativity, which is responsible for creative thinking. Your uniqueness is time to stop hiding, start to develop it.

Creative thinking is necessary for anyone who wants to:

• stop being just a performer and copy others;
• see creative solutions where the logic of rent;
• develop the ability to create new terms in this mundane concepts;
• come to productivity and personal success.

Striving for patterns of behavior and habitual action leads to the inertia of thinking, and this is the chief enemy of creativity. Enemies decided to arm themselves, and here are five effective methods.

associative thinking

Associative thinking is called thinking geniuses. The distinguishing feature of such thinking - ability to generalize is not based on logic and analysis, and thanks to finding commonality among objects and processes.

Here it helps to find associations:

• activates both the brain;
• picks up on knowledge memory surface from different spheres of life;
• helping to create new semantic links;
• leads to the creation of original ideas.

How to develop. Look around you, choose any two items and come up with associative links between them. The unusual and absurd these connections, the better. Walk up to this task creatively, no platitudes.

Example. Now I sit at the table, so my word "notebook" and "pen." The first thing that comes to mind: "I took a pen and wrote in a notebook." But do not we need it, but because we think ahead and get "jumped on the table Pen, notebook open and pen tap to beat off on its pages. Morse realized - this discovery, he would call his name. " Now you try.

Observation

The genius of Leonardo da Vinci believed the vision the main tool in the understanding of human nature. According to the artist, the knowledge arose as a result of observing the phenomenon and its subsequent drawing.

Observation - is the key to understanding the world that:

• increases the activity of cognitive activity;
• It involves the interaction with the environment;
• It helps to see the world in detail, to see its laws, its understanding of the relationship processes.

Habit record observations helps develop skills and can manifest itself in different forms: in charge of records, retellings, drawings, photographs.

How to develop. Consider a subject that is familiar to you, as if seeing it for the first time (as a child), to the smallest detail. Pay attention to the texture, shades, try to find in it something that had not previously noticed.

Example. Examining grapefruit led me to the conclusion, "So what do you peel!" And sketching citrus memory waiting for the evening train. As you can imagine, after such exercise itself grapefruit for that I no longer needed.

Ability to see the implicit properties of objects

We continue to struggle with the patterns of behavior and avoiding clichés and stereotypes in thinking. At this time, we use the template gap method, that is, perform an unexpected act, which is able to break the logic of habitual thinking and lead to new ideas.

How to develop. To create such a shift in perception makes a statement about the object of our attention, which in any way alter the object itself or its characteristics. Remember, as a child a few stools and chair turned into a train with carriages and flower buds and pods became the ladies and gentlemen at the ball? Here and there a similar principle.

Example. Take as brick subject. What are its implicit properties? With it, you can spend a perpendicular line, because bricks have square corners. And yet they can draw on the pavement - as a child, we did so. Brick can prop the door to keep it closed. Two brick - it is almost ready gateway for the game of football in the yard. Your turn, go ahead.

Imagination

Einstein argued that logic takes you from point A to point B, and imagination will take you anywhere. When you start to work on this skill, you make sure to overcome the lock gives a lot of imagination:

• gives wings of freedom;
• pushing the boundaries of knowledge;
• It makes it possible to take a fresh look at the problem;
• stimulates progress.

How to develop. Start the phrase this way: "What would happen if ..." - and finished in any subject and predicate. Give a detailed response to the question created by spending no more than three minutes.

Example. "What would happen if our country was headed magician Goodwin?" Or "What would happen if my home grown Kuryi legs?". The skill responses to abstract questions, go to the matters in which there is an objective problem for you: "What would happen if [your problem] split into 100 pieces?"

A sense of humor, ability to see the contradictions and ambiguities

This skill will help to see the world more volume to overcome the inertia of thinking. But it is also important that humor - is the social glue. C may be interested in using it, and to win people. No wonder more Turgenev remarked that "there is nothing tedious cheerless mind." The ability to smile to look at the world around you and give vitality to others and positive.

How to develop. To train the ability to find ambiguity, select a couple of homonyms and make deals with them, where they are used in the same sense. And then try in the context of the new proposal to disclose a homonym with the second meaning. Example: "Parrot sparrows with an air gun, if you want to" - "Parrot Vorobyov lived in the apartment and the conductor did not know how to use a gun."

With controversy still easier, but no less interesting. Take two mutually exclusive concepts and connect them in the same sentence. Example: "Our individual approach to all the same!"

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The father of modern psychology, William James argued that people can change their lives by changing only their point of view. To see that the world is changing, and with it, me and you, help regular audits of their beliefs. After these exercises, you will feel differently. If not immediately, then over time you will have other thoughts, new feelings, and after them come to unconventional ideas.

But a hundred years ago, the prevailing view that learning to be creative is not possible, it is necessary to be born. Now psychologists are convinced that it is possible to release creative thinking through the development of imagination, almost any person. Exactly how to overcome internal barriers and develop relevant abilities you already know. Good luck!