CREATIVE THINKING SKILLS

By: Anjana Rani

Riddhi Malviya Shyamlee Shreya Sunanda Ghorai

WHAT IS CREATIVITY?

Creativity is defined as the tendency to generate or recognize ideas, that may be useful in solving problems, communicating with others, and entertaining ourselves

and others.

Used in most creative situation

Effective when one is stuck in thinking paradigms.

Assumed Truth that can be questioned.

ASSUMPTION BUSTING

Duration = Short and Instantaneous

Style = Logical Individual

IDENTIFY

•Where do you feel stuck? Identify a problem or situation on which you want to work.

THE PROCESS OF ASSUMPTION BUSTING

GATHER DATA

• Use who, what, when, where, why, and how to make a list of everything you know, think and feel about the situation. These are your assumptions.

BUST ASSUMPTIONS

•Choose one of the deepened assumptions and reverse it. Restate it in its opposite form.

WHAT IF?• Now take this reversed statement and use the

stem• “What if?” and make a list of questions that

make this reversed statement more true or that expand your understanding of the assumption.

EXAMPLE

SITUATION: we cannot sell these new gadgets over the internet

ASSUMPTION: We do not have the technology

BUSTING: We can learn and we can buy it.

EXAMPLE( cont.)

ASSUMPTION: Buying it in would be expensive

BUSTING: You dont know until you ask.Get my teenage son to do it

EXAMPLE( cont.)

ASSUMPTION: Your teenage son would not do it professionally

BUSTING: Look at these sites he did. He can at least do a trial site to prove the principle.

EXAMPLE( cont.)

ASSUMPTION: It wont work

BUSTING: A trial site would help prove this

THANK YOU