TECHNIQUES FOR DEVELOPING CREATIVE ABILITY
To be creative, an individual should: i. think beyond the invisible frame works that surround problems/situations. ii. recognize when assumptions are being made and challenge them. iii. spot narrow-minded thinking and widen the field of vision, i.e to draw on the experiences of other individuals/business. iv. develop/adopt ideas from more than one source. v. practice fortune, i.e having a wide attention span and range of interest. vi. transfer technology from one field to another. vii. be prepared to use unpredictable events to their advantage. viii. explore thought processes and the key elements of the mind at work in analyzing, valuing and synthesizing. ix. use the unconscious mind, for example by sleeping on a problem to generate creative solutions to the problem. x. note down ideas that apparently drop into the mind unsolicited so that they are not forgotten. xi. try when appropriate, to sometimes make the strange, familiar and the familiar strange to spark new ideas. xii. ma...