{"id":10727,"date":"2016-12-09T07:26:05","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T05:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestprofitsonline.com\/myblog\/?p=10727"},"modified":"2016-12-09T07:26:05","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T05:26:05","slug":"7-blocks-to-creative-thinking-and-how-to-solve-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestprofitsonline.com\/myblog\/7-blocks-to-creative-thinking-and-how-to-solve-them\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Blocks To Creative Thinking And How To Solve Them"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Each of us has the power to be creative. It\u2019s part of our natural make-up as human beings. The trouble is that, too often, we block our natural creativity and so make errors in thinking and give ourselves more problems than we should. Here are 7 ways to open up your natural creativity and keep the channels unblocked.
\n1. Don\u2019t Make Assumptions. When we assume, we often make an \u201cass\u201d out of \u201cu\u201d and \u201cme\u201d. Assumptions are examples of lazy thinking. We simply don\u2019t wait to get all the information we need to come to the right conclusions. There is the story of the customer at the bank who after cashing a cheque and turning to leave, returns and says: \u201cExcuse me, I think you made a mistake.\u201d The cashier responds, \u201cI\u2019m sorry but there\u2019s nothing I can do. You should have counted it. Once you walk away we are no longer responsible.\u201d Whereupon the customer replies: \u201cWell, okay. Thanks for the extra $20.\u201d
\nTip: When you feel yourself wanting to draw conclusions, just wait until you have all the information.
\n2. See Things From Other Points Of View. A truly open mind is willing to accept that, not only do other people have other just as valid points of view from theirs, but that these other points of view may be more valid. A story is told that the modernist painter Pablo Picasso was once traveling on a train across Spain when he got into conversation with a rich businessman who was dismissive of modern art. As evidence that modern art didn\u2019t properly represent reality, he took out a photo of his wife from his wallet and said: \u201cThis is how my wife should look, not in some silly stylized representation.\u201d Picasso took the photo, studied it for a few moments and asked: \u201cThis is your wife?\u201d The businessman proudly nodded. \u201cShe\u2019s very small,\u201d observed Picasso wryly.
\nTip: Don\u2019t have a monopoly on how things are. Things aren\u2019t always what they seem. Be ready to consider other points of view.
\n3. Avoid Yo-Yo Thinking. Some people tend to have a tendency to swing from a highly positive mood one minute to a highly negative one the next, all because of what they see in front of them. It\u2019s like a yo-yo: up one minute, down the next. It\u2019s far more healthy to stay neutral and not let emotions get the better of you.
\nTip: Remember that things are rarely as good \u2013 or as bad \u2013 as you think they are.
\n4. Get Rid Of Lazy Thinking Habits. Habit can be a major stumbling block to clear thinking and another example of laziness. Try this experiment. Write down the Scottish surnames Macdonald, Macpherson, and Macdougall and ask someone to pronounce them. Now follow these with the word Machinery and see what happens. Most people are likely to mis-pronounce it. This is because we tend to think in habitual ways and don\u2019t like what doesn\u2019t fit.
\nTip: Don\u2019t think that, just because things happened in a certain way once before, that they will happen like that again.
\n5. Don\u2019t Think Like An Old Person, Think Like A Child. Research shows that the number of synapses, or connections, in the brain is greater in a child of two than in an average adult. The reason for this is that, while a child of two has no limiting world view, as adults we do. It\u2019s like a sculptor who starts off with a large block of clay, more than he needs, and then gradually removes the clay as he moulds his sculpture. If we use our brain like a child, accepting everything without judgment, we can actually halt and reverse the brain ageing process.
\nTip: Don\u2019t worry about the myth of age. With the right stimulus and a passion for learning, you can actually improve your brain\u2019s powers.
\n6. See The Detail As Well As The Big Picture. You may know the poem by John Godfrey Saxe called \u201cThe Blind Men and the Elephant\u201d. This tells how six blind men of Indostan go to see an elephant and each try to work out what it is from touching it. One blind man touches the tusk, another the trunk, another the tail, and so on. Of course, not being able to see the whole elephant, they come to wildly different conclusions.
\nTip: Try to keep the big picture in front of you while looking at details. It will help to put everything in its proper place and context.
\n7. Think For Yourself. Taking time out to think is still frowned on in many organizations that prize activity over creativity. People who work in creativity-constrained organizations are likely to think the way they are supposed to think, or as others think, or as has always been the way to think. It\u2019s like the blinkered thinking that Hans Christian Anderson describes in his story of \u201cThe Emperor\u2019s New Clothes\u201d. Everyone in the land refuses to see that the emperor is naked and has been duped into believing he is wearing a splendid costume for his coronation. Only a young boy who has been ill and not party to the cultural brainwashing can see the truth and cries out: \u201cLook, everyone, the Emperor is wearing no clothes!\u201d
\nTip: Don\u2019t let others tell you how to think. When others ask your opinion, tell it to them straight.
\nOnce you make these 7 techniques part of your habitual thinking patterns, you will amaze yourself with how easy it is to come up with fresh, innovative and creative solutions to all of life\u2019s problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Each of us has the power to be creative. It\u2019s part of our natural make-up as human beings. The trouble is that, too often, we block our natural creativity and so make errors in thinking and give ourselves more problems than we should. Here are 7 ways to open up your natural creativity and keep… Read More »7 Blocks To Creative Thinking And How To Solve Them<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,519,1008,23,17,24,1037],"tags":[514,214,1607,422,123,960,203,1266,33],"class_list":["post-10727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-business","category-google","category-marketing","category-pinterest-com","category-profits","category-social-media","tag-514","tag-and","tag-blocks","tag-creative","tag-how","tag-solve","tag-them","tag-thinking","tag-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestprofitsonline.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestprofitsonline.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestprofitsonline.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestprofitsonline.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestprofitsonline.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestprofitsonline.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestprofitsonline.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestprofitsonline.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestprofitsonline.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}