Creative Thinking
Carmelo Pollichino Twitter: @c.pollichino e-mail: [email protected]
Mechanism of our brain
Thinking is a voluntary action
Intelligence
Thinking
≠ Critical Thinking
Creative Thinking
≠
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Intelligence (engine)
is a potential
Thinking (driver)
is an operative skill
Critical Thinking Creative Thinking
• Analytical
• Judgmental
• Selective
• Probability
• Left brain
• Yes but…
• Generative
• Non-judgmental
• Expansive
• Possibility
• Right brain
• Yes and…
Left Right
Rational
Pratical
Logical
Linear
Analytical
Mathematical
Emotional
Creative
Immaginative
Intuitive
Holistic
Expanded
with critical thinking you
can find wrong answers
with creative thinking you
can find wrong questions
When you are thinking critically you are making
choices
When you think creatively you are
exploring many new ideas
Thinking process is like a kayak with 2 paddles,
one is creative thinking while the other
rapresents critical thinking
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Creative Thinking in 3 steps
Set the brain in
positive thinking
#1
80% of the brain is dedicated to
visual processing
#2
The dream education center
Finish (video)
Use
creative methods
#3
Six Thinking Hats®
The main difficulty of thinking is confusion
emotions
informations
logic
hope creativity
Help to do
one thing at a time
Create a
map of think
Six Thinking Hats®
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Six Thinking Hats®
White Hat Informa7on
• Informa7on we know • Informa7on we need • How are we going to get that informa7on?
• Determines accuracy and relevance
• Look at Other People’s Views (O.P.V.)
Red Hat Feelings, Intui7on, Gut Ins7nct
• Permission to express feelings • No need to jus7fy • Represents feelings right now • Keep it short • A key ingredient in decision
making
Black Hat Risks, Difficul7es and Problems
• The skep7cal view • Reasons must be given • Points out Thinking that does
not fit the facts, experience, regula7ons, strategy, values
• Points out poten7al problems
Yellow Hat
• Benefits and The op7mis7c view • Reasons must be given • Needs more effort than the black hat
• Find the benefits and values • Considers both short and long-‐term perspec7ves
Benefits and Feasibility
Green Hat New Ideas, Possibili7es
• Crea7ve thinking • Seeks alterna7ves and possibili7es • Removes faults • Doesn’t have to be logical • Generates new concepts
Blue Hat Managing the Thinking
• “Control” hat • Organizes the thinking • Sets the focus and agenda • Summarizes and concludes • Ensures that the rules are
observed
Informa7on Feelings, Intui7on, Gut Ins7nct
Risks, Difficul7es and Problems Benefits and Feasibility
New Ideas, Possibili7es Managing the Thinking
The Four Rules
1. Whoever come are the right people.
2. Whatever happens is the only thing that could have.
3. Whenever it starts is the right time.
4. When it’s over, it’s over.
The law of two feet
Open Space Technology (Harrison Owen)
Carmelo Pollichino Twitter: @c.pollichino e-mail: [email protected]