Your creative thinking requires work.

At school we heard about various inventors, creators, and genius. We learned about the facts of the final products, but very little have heard of their development, work habits, attitudes and approaches, which are also part of the process. Everyone is creative. All people are born being able to think spontaneously and creatively. People, who later in life are engaged in creative activities, differ from others only that they have faith that they can create. Any course, any lessons cannot teach that. Generally speaking, how you will think – it will be so. Believing that you are a creative person, you start to look for ways to express yourself and your approach.

Creative thinking requires work. The development of new ideas is a process, and you need to dive into it. This requires patience and resistance. It’s hard work, but it brings the best results. Not necessarily everything that you create is valuable, but the dedication to work gradually lead to the goal. Generating ideas, the brain is like activated. Doing it constantly, you become more creative.

The brain is not a computer. The brain does not work nearly as easy as computer. This system is based on experience. Most importantly, it does not matter whether the experience is real or fictitious. If to imagine a scenario in details, the brain will accept it as experience. So, you can give sense to even strangest ideas and gradually implement them in reality.

There is no single correct answer. Some say that the sky is blue, and nothing else. In fact, the sky has many shades. The same is with ideas – they should not be seen as good or bad, because it destroys your creativity. Better think about all ideas as about the possibilities and try to have them as much as possible. Do not stop at the first good idea. Always look for ways to improve the idea and do not give up.

Experts delve into a narrow area, so their thoughts are also becoming narrower. It’s not bad, because they have detailed knowledge, but to accept new, unexpected ideas to them is difficult because they can break down their truth. That is why you can wait criticism from them. Do not give up, if someone says that your ideas are unnecessary, unfair or unworkable.

When you try to do something and you make a mistake or fail, it’s not bad luck. Ask yourself what you have learned, what does not work, why does not work. Maybe you learned something what not expected? This is an experience from which you learned. And if you meet the man who claims that never was wrong, it means that he never tried something new. Any experience is neutral, but the way you are looking at it gives meaning to your experience. Only on you depends how to evaluate your own work and experience.

Remember that the most important is to discover a new perspective. Do not rely on your first point of view, because it is often restrictive. Change your perspective from which you look and the same problem will change. Thought should not be a complete mess; all your ideas are useful, but most of them are not used.

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