What is the nature of creative thinking?

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What is the nature of creative thinking?

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Introduction

Creativity refers to the ability to make or do something new that is new, useful, and valued by others. Creative thinking is an important form of creativity, which generates ideas that are new as well as productive, valued, useful, and appropriate.

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Nature of Creative thinking

  1. Creative thinking involves the production of original ideas or solutions to problems. Divergent productive abilities that generate a large number of alternative responses including original, unusual, or unexpected ideas are an important characteristic of creative thinking.
  2. Creative thinking involves new forms of thinking that include curiosity, imagination, novelty, research, and inventions, etc.
  3. Besides being divergent, creative thinking also leads to useful results.
  4. The flexibility of thinking and behavior is an important trait of creative thinking.
  5. Originality is an important feature of creative thinking. Creative thinking generates new ideas, new methods, and new attitudes.
  6. Creative thinking is reality-oriented, appropriate, highly motivated, and dynamic. 
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