The more you do of
what you’re doing, the more you’ll get of what you’ve got. Creative
thinking requires that you continually dig deep into yourself and generate
more, newer, better, faster, cheaper, different ideas that you can use to
improve the important parts of your life. Want to be a creative thinker?
Read below some unique qualities of creative thinkers
Ask Questions
The first quality is that creative thinkers are intensely curious.
They are always asking questions. They ask questions like “Why?” very
much like children do all the time. Then they ask, “Why not?” “Why can’t
we do it?” “Even if it hasn’t been done before, can it be done now?”
Change Your Mind
The second quality of
creative thinkers is that they have a willingness to change. They
recognize that in a world such as ours, the unwillingness or inability to
change is fatal. They prefer to be in charge of their lives rather than
being caught up in the flash flood of change that is inevitable and unavoidable.
The words of the truly flexible person, the person who is willing to change are
simply, “I changed my mind.” According to researchers, fully 70% of the
decisions you make turn out to be wrong in the long run. This means that
you must be willing to change your mind and try something else most
of the time. Mental flexibility is the most important quality that you
will need for success in the 21st century.
Continue to Learn
The third quality is that highly creative people can say, “I don’t
know.” They recognize that it is impossible for anyone to know anything
about everything, and it is very likely that almost everyone is wrong to some
extent, no matter what they are doing. So when someone asks them a
particular question that they don’t know the answer to they admit it early and
often. They simply say, “I don’t know.” And if necessary they go
about finding the answer. Here’s an important point. No matter what
problems you have, there is someone somewhere who has had the same problem and
who has already solved the problem and is using the solution today. One
of the smartest and most creative things you can do is to find someone else,
somewhere, who is already implementing the solution successfully and then copy
him or her. The smartest person is not necessarily the person who comes up with
the idea. It may be just a lucky flash of insight. The smartest
person is the one who copies the idea first. And it is often the person
to recognize the value of a new idea that makes a fortune from the idea while
the originator makes little or nothing.
Creative Thinkers Are Goal Oriented
The fourth quality of creative people is that they are intensely goal
focused. They know exactly what they want. They have it written
down very clearly. They visualize it on a regular basis. They
imagine what their goal would look like if it were a reality today. And
the more they visualize and imagine their goal as a reality, the more creative
they become and the faster they move toward achieving it.
Creative Thinking Generates New Ideas
The most important
part of creative thinking is your ability to generate ideas. And
the greater the quantity of ideas that you generate, the greater the quality
your ideas will be. The more ideas you have, the more likely you are to
have the right idea at the right time. But generating ideas is only 1% of the
equation. As Thomas Edison once wrote, “Genius is one percent inspiration
and 99 percent perspiration.” Your ability to come up with an idea, to
test it and validate it, and then to implement it through creative thinking and execute
it in your life to achieve results is the true mark of genius. Every single
time you originate a new idea, write it down, make a plan for its
implementation through creative thinking and then take action, you are behaving
like a genius. And the more you manage your creativity in this way, the
smarter you will become. And the smarter you will become, the more you
will achieve in every area of your life. Your future will become
unlimited.
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Source: Brain Tracy
