- 144 pages
- English
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- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
The Art of Creative Thinking provides clear, practical guidelines for developing your powers as a creative thinker. Using examples of entrepreneurs, authors, scientists and artists, John Adair illustrates a key aspect of creativity in each chapter. Stimulating and accessible, this book will help you to understand the creative process, overcome barriers to new ideas, learn to think effectively and develop a creative attitude. It will help you to become more confident in yourself as a creative person. The Art of Creative Thinking gives you a fresh concept of creative thinking and it will guide you in developing your full potential as a creative thinker. New ideas are the seeds of new products and services, and this book will open the door to them.
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Index
ambiguity 93–96
and courage 94–95
key points for 96
and perseverance 95
analogy 9–14, 16–17, 19, 72–73
as modelling vs copying 13
and existing models 13
and motorcycle example 13
and nature 10, 12
of bees 95, 96
of unknown idea 17
quiz 10–12
analysis 75, 88, 92
and evaluation 46, 49, 68–69
of problem: checklist 119–20 see also checklists
analytical skills 83–88
and clarity of thought 86
and defining/redefining problems 86
and germination of ideas 83–84
key points for 88
answers to quiz questions and exercise 125–27
art and artists 39–40
Art of Thought, The 84
assumptions 61–66
and common sense 66
exercise for testing 63
key points for 66
making conscious 62
and preconceptions 62
and received opinion 63
and thinking vs guessing 64
unconscious 64
belief, suspension of 93
box, thinking outside the 66
chance and the prepared mind 29–32 see also serendipity
and clues, seeing and recognizing 31, 32
and curiosity and open-mindedness 32
key points for 32
chance discoveries, examples of 29–31
galvanometer (Thompson) 30
glass-making (Pilkington) 29–30
offset printing (Rufel) 30
penicillin (Fleming) 30
vulcanized rubber (Goodyear) 30–31
chaos and birth of ideas 28
checklists
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Table of contents
- About the author
- Introduction
- 01 On human creativity
- 02 Use the stepping stones of analogy
- 03 Make the strange familiar and the familiar strange
- 04 Widen your span of relevance
- 05 Practise serendipity
- 06 Chance favours only the prepared mind
- 07 Curiosity
- 08 Keep your eyes open
- 09 Listen for ideas
- 10 Reading to generate ideas
- 11 Keep a notebook
- 12 Test your assumptions
- 13 Make better use of your Depth Mind
- 14 Do not wait for inspiration
- 15 Sharpen your analytical skills
- 16 Suspend judgement
- 17 Learn to tolerate ambiguity
- 18 Drift, wait and obey
- 19 Sleep on the problem
- 20 Working it out
- 21 Think creatively about your life
- Appendix A Checklist: Have you analysed the problem?
- Appendix B Checklist: Are you using your Depth Mind?
- Appendix C Answers to quiz questions and exercise on pages 10–12 and 63
- Index