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09/06/2013
Creative Thinking
Rasha El Naggar
09/06/2013
Creative Thinking
Rasha El Naggar
Creativity is a function of individual ability and environmental factors. Comment on this statement. Provide Examples.
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Creative Thinking
Rasha El Naggar
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Creative Thinking
Rasha El Naggar
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Creative Thinking
Rasha El Naggar
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Creative Thinking
Rasha El Naggar
It can't be done: This attitude is, in effect, surrendering before the battle. By assuming that something cannot be done or a problem cannot be solved, a person gives the problem a power or strength it didn't have before. And giving up before starting is, of course, self fulfilling.
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Creative Thinking
Rasha El Naggar
But I'm not creative. Everyone is creative to some extent. Most people are capable of very high levels of creativity; just look at young children when they play and imagine. The problem is that this creativity has been suppressed by education. All you need to do is let it come back to the surface. You will soon discover that you are surprisingly creative. That's childish. In our effort to appear always mature and sophisticated, we often block the creative, playful attitudes that marked our younger years. What will people think? There is strong social pressure to conform and to be ordinary and not creative.
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The relationship between cultural and creative expression is complex. Cultural factors clearly have a profound influence on appropriate outlets for creative expression, on the nature of the subject matter and form of expression, and on the types of individuals engaged in, creative activity. There are many ways by which societies shape all aspects of creative expression, ranging from the availability of resources to the provision of rewards or punishments.
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4. A belief that most problems can be solved. The creative thinker believes that something can always be done to eliminate or help alleviate almost every problem. Problems are solved by a commitment of time and energy, and where this commitment is present, few things are impossible. 5. Seeing the good in the bad. Creative thinkers, when faced with poor solutions, don't cast them away. Instead, they ask, "What's good about it?" because there may be something useful even in the worst ideas. And however little that good may be, it might be turned to good effect or made greater.
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6. Problems lead to improvements. The attitude of constructive discontent searches for problems and possible areas of improvement, but many times problems arrive on their own. But such unexpected and perhaps unwanted problems are not necessarily bad, because they often permit solutions that leave the world better than before the problem arose.
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Generate
Decide
Implement
Evaluate
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Step 1: Collect and Analyze information and data The information should be properly organized, analyzed and presented so that it can serve as the basis for subsequent decision making. Make a simple sketch or drawing of the situation. Step 2: Talk with people who are familiar with the problem Step 3: View the problem Firsthand Step 4: Confirm All Key Findings: Verify the information you collected. Check and cross reference data, facts and figures. Distinguish between facts and opinion.
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Types of Data
Data could be primary or secondary. Primary data is the one collected by the researcher for the first time to understand the problem at hand. Primary data come from interviews, surveys, observation. Secondary Data; is collected already by other researchers for other problems, not necessarily the problem at hand. This could come from articles, books, publishes data and censuses.
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Exercise: If you were responsible to study the the problem of unemployment what information is required and from where to obtain this information and why this information is needed?
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Questions that explore view points and perspectives What would be the alternative? What is a different way of looking at it? Questions that probe implications and consequences: What are the consequences of that assumption if it is not valid. Questions that revisit the original question?
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Exercise
Apply the Socratic questions to define the real problems of unemployment (if it is a real problem or a perceived one). Relate the questions to the data sources.
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