1. Creative Thinking Adds Value to Everything
Wouldn’t you enjoy a limitless reservoir of ideas that you could draw upon at
any time? That’s what creative thinking gives you. For that reason,
no matter
what you are currently able to do, creativity can increase your capabilities.
Creativity is being able to see what everybody else has seen and think what
nobody else has thought so that you can do what nobody else has done.
Sometimes creative thinking lies
along the lines of invention, where you break
new ground. Other times it moves along the lines of innovation, which helps you
to do old things in a new way. But either way, it’s
seeing the world through
sufficiently new eyes so that new solutions appear. That always adds value.
2. Creative Thinking Compounds
Over the years, I’ve found that
Creative Thinking Is Hard Work
but
Creative Thinking Compounds Given Enough
Time and Focus
Perhaps more than any other kind of thinking,
creative thinking builds on
itself and increases the creativity of the thinker. Poet Maya Angelou observed,
“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. Sadly, too
often creativity is smothered rather than nurtured.
There has to be a climate in
which new ways of thinking, perceiving, questioning are encouraged.” If you
cultivate creative thinking in an environment that nurtures creativity, there’s no
telling what kind of ideas you can come up with. (I’ll talk more on that later.)
