Friday, August 22, 2008

Five Stages of the Creative Thinking Process

Creative thinking is what we normally refer to as “thinking out of the box.” Thinking out of the box essentially mean going out of the normal logical thinking process to appreciate the problem from another perspective which we normally don’t take. We go out of the “if then this” logical sequence of thinking and let our intuitive process enter into the scene.

The following five stages normally take

1. Saturation. This is the stage where we feel we are in a mess over a problem. We have a sense of helplessness, not really sure how we can wriggle our of a complex problematic situation we are in.

2. Deliberation. In this stage, we stretch the mind so to speak trying to find a solution to what may appear as an increasingly desperate situation. We exhaust everything possible in our logical arsenal and seem to be facing a blank wall.

3. Incubation. Exhausted, we finally give way and relax. We turn away from the conscious and purposeful search and try to forget the situation of unproductive work We let the subconscious mind to work by “sleeping on the problem” figuratively and even literally.

4. Illumination. Suddenly seemingly out of the blue, we hit upon a bright idea! It may even at times a appear bit crazy but we sense that it might be the answer to the problem. This stage occurred when Isaac Newton saw the falling apple and suddenly he got a full appreciation of and insight to the law of gravitation.

5. Accommodation. We go back to the drawing board armed with the insight. Our logical mind takes over again as we further clarify the idea, reframe it, adapting it to the situation and finally, implementing it.

When all things fail in your attempt to solve a problem, let your creative mind take over. Relax. Take a walk. Sleep. You might just be a blink away from the solution to the problem if you just let your intuitive mind take over.

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2 comments:

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