Nine approaches to creative problem solving
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- Rethink!
Look at problems in many different ways.
Find new perspectives that no one else has taken.
Solutions example: Finding a job or internship: - Ask friends or colleagues for potential leads
- Over-sell yourself
Send samples of your work or portfolio to anyone that might respond. - Check local resources like Craigslist or your school's job search
- Broaden your target
audience.
What other fields could you specialize in? - Visualize!
Utilize diagrams and imagery to analyze your dilemma. - How can you use pictures, images, graphs, etc. in your studies?
- Visit guides on concept or mind maps, picturing vocabulary, flashcards, etc.
- Write out one example of how you can use imagery, then print and post it in your study area.
- Produce!
Genius is productive. - Perhaps originality is not the key, but rather constant application of thought and tools to arrive a solutions.
- Geniuses are the
luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they
most want to do.
W. H. Auden (1907–1973) Anglo-American poet - Genius is nothing
but a great aptitude for patience.
George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon (1707–1788) French naturalist - Combine!
Make novel combinations...
Combine and recombine ideas, images, and thoughts into different combinations no matter how incongruent or unusual. - Form!
Form relationships. Make connections between dissimilar subjects. - This doesn't always apply to objects: form relationships with people and ask them questions!
- Get to know people in your field that can help you excel to the best of your ability.
- Write down one person that you could get in contact with, why you think this person can help, and print/post it for reference!
- Opposite!
Think in opposites. Don't always stick with the obvious solutions.
Get outside of your comfort zone. - “Opposites” bring two
approaches to a situation but they do share a basic similarity.
Example: “right” and “left” are both directions, but which is the right choice? - The Sesame Street Muppet Elmo teaches small children the concept of opposites!
- Metaphor/simile!
Think metaphorically. - Metaphors are
connections that are unusual or not an ordinary way of thinking:
A sea of troubles; the heart of a lion; raining cats and dogs. - Similes use
"like" or "as" to illustrate
The boy was as agile as a monkey. The miner's face was like coal.
The task was as easy as ABC. Dry like a raisin in the sun. - Failure!
Learning from your mistakes is one example of using failure. - As strange as it seems the human brain is failure machine: it generates models of reality, acts on them, and adjusts or creates new, successful models based on failures.
- From Daniel Coyle’s the Talent Code on Adam Bryant’s weekly interview: “every single CEO shares the same nugget of wisdom: the crucial importance of mistakes, failures, and setbacks… mistakes create unique conditions of high-velocity learning that cannot be matched by more stable, “successful” situations.”
- Patience!
Don't confuse inspiration with ideas.
Apply your ideas with patience for the reward they may deserve.
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