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The document discusses creativity and creative problem solving. It defines creativity as deriving from the Latin word "to have grown" and involving the generation of new ideas. There are different types of thinking like vertical, lateral, and fourth dimensional thinking that can aid creativity. The stages of creativity are preparation, incubation, illumination, and verification. Creative problem solving follows steps of fact finding, problem finding, idea finding, solution finding, and acceptance finding. Barriers to creativity include fear of risk, dislike of uncertainty, judgmental attitudes, and fear of failure.

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Creativity

The document discusses creativity and creative problem solving. It defines creativity as deriving from the Latin word "to have grown" and involving the generation of new ideas. There are different types of thinking like vertical, lateral, and fourth dimensional thinking that can aid creativity. The stages of creativity are preparation, incubation, illumination, and verification. Creative problem solving follows steps of fact finding, problem finding, idea finding, solution finding, and acceptance finding. Barriers to creativity include fear of risk, dislike of uncertainty, judgmental attitudes, and fear of failure.

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Creativity

The word creativity is derived from Latin "creatures" which literally means "to have grown". Creativity is
a mental process involving the generation of new ideas or concepts or associations of the creative mind
between existing ideas or concepts. It provides the ability to view and solve problem in a new or
different way.

Types of Thinking

 vertical thinking

 lateral thinking

 fourth dimensional thinking

 creative thinking

Stages of creativity:

1. Stage One: Preparation


2. Stage two: Incubation
3. Stage three: Illumination
4. Stage fourth :Verification

Method of creative problem solving

Creative problem solving is the mental process of creating a solution to a problem. It is a special form of
problem solving in which the solution is independently created rather than learned with assistance. The
steps involved can be sequentially listed out as:

1. Fact finding
2. Problem finding

3. Idea finding

4 Solution finding

5. Acceptance finding

1. Fact finding

 It tries to identify all facts related to the problem. Facts can be gathered from personal
experience or from individuals, literatures, other personal records with related situation etc.
 If the problem concerns a situation, then remember 5 Ws-who, what, why, when, where.
 If the problem repeats for some objects then ask and observe for functions, odors, sound, taste,
color and shape of the objects to generate facts. It helps to identify the root cause of the
problem. The next stage is to find out as much information relating to the problem as possible
 This stage also involves assessing the quality of the information.

2. Problem finding

 Often finding the right problem to solve is the most difficult part of the creative process. When
using Simplex, actively seek problems out.
 Wherever they exist we have opportunities for change and improvement. What could they be
doing better if we could help them? It means sensing the problem or challenges for creative
intervention.
 In this step the participants are involved in sensing problems. They are oriented with common
words like school, work, working place, misunderstanding e.g. Quality nursing service.

3. Idea finding

. Remembers the word- SCAMPER, each letter stands for some action

S- Substitute

C-Combine

A- Adjust/Adapt

M- Modify

P Put together

E- Eliminate

R –Rearrange/Reverse
5. Solution Finding
 Once we have a number of possible solutions to our problem, it is time to select the best
one. It involves evaluation of ideas. At this stage, the best idea among those generated
is chosen. It may be that the best is not always obvious.

 Therefore, worth of ideas must be examined and details must be developed with a
number of ideas before choosing one.

 The new ideas are evaluated for its usefulness. Usefulness is pudged the following
criteriaa eg. cost, moral or legal implication timeliness, feasibility, effects etc. The
evaluation tries to identify the best possible solution

6. Acceptance Finding
 In this stage, best ideas are developed as an "action plan". Once this is done, the work of
implementation begins.

 It relates to the strategy that is to be chosen. Deliberate attempts are planned for
gaining acceptance for the ideas before it is taken to decision making

 The questions need to be considered is "How to get acceptance" or "what is the worst
thing that can happen?" and then try to think of possible way to overcome.

 The best way of doing this is to set this out as an Action Plan, which lays out the who,
what. when, where, why and how of making it work.

 For large projects it may be worth using more formal planning techniques

Barriers of creativity
 Fear of taking a Risk Dislike for uncertainty

 Imaginary boundaries

 Lack of confidence

 Judgmental attitude

 Discouragement from other people

 Being overwhelmed by information

 Being trapped by false limits Habits of routine activities

 Rigidness

 Creating and evaluating at the same time or jumping in conclusion

 The Expert Syndrome Fear of failure


 Fear of ambiguity

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