Why does Creative Thinking Fail?

The world is changing very fast; creative thinking skills may be one of the crucial elements for graphic designers in responding to future challenges effectively. If innovation is oxygen, then creative thinking skill have always blown to ensure that the spirit of innovation are alive.

In this article we will try to explore the creative universe: about why you failed to think creatively, and also about how the most surefire way to boost your creative thinking skills.

Why We Often Fail with Creative Thinking?

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Before talking more about how to develop creative thinking, first of all we have to answer this important question: which is why we often fail to think creatively.

Vertical thinking

Vertical thinking/mindset is one of the reasons why someone fails to build a creative work process. Vertical thinking is a thought to try to define the problem in only one way without considering alternative views (when mind tends to only concentrate on one narrow point).

Vertical mindset necessarily makes us become too narrow in defining the boundaries of the problem. People often assume that a number of problems or alternative solutions are things that are beyond their limits (or deemed unreasonable), so they will just ignore it.

Non-inquisitives

Other inhibiting creativity is: non-inquisitives. This is a reluctant attitude and is not trained in asking questions. Often people are not able to solve problems creatively because they are lazy to ask a question, or less active in collecting the data and information.

Non-inquisitives (lack of curiosity) finally makes us flew into 'non-thinking' mode, or similar tendency to avoid work mentally (thinking hard).

People tend to be reluctant to take the time to "think", or reflectively explores various alternative solutions, as well as new ways that may be useful to create something innovative.

Critical thinking, a low sense of curiosity, and a reluctance to think explorative are some major aspects in making a person become less creative.

How to Improve Creative Thinking Skill?

After tracking down some of the factors that often pose coup creative thinking process, so now we take a look at two powerful tips are worth doing to drive your creativity.

Attribute Listing

This method is feasible if we find a situation that can be breakdown into a series of attributes.

Describe the issue under discussion in many attributes. We can also map the major problems in a number of categories, and then helps it to breakdown each category in a number of attributes.

For each attribute ask 'what is given?' Dig the value of each attribute. There is a possibility of an attribute gives a positive or negative value. Our task is to explore the value of each attribute, modify creatively, and find the best value in each attribute.

Visioning

This kind of behavior is to describe a brilliant or innovative future. Or try to think imaginatively about what you want to achieve in the future.

When imagining the future picture, use only the words that dynamic and soulful.

Use only the present tense sentence (e.g.: they loves my work) instead of the future tense (they will love my work). The phrase in the present tense will make a picture of imagination has become closer.

Visioning is effective because we are a species that is full of imagination, and very motivated by what we perceive as a possible future.

Conclusion
I certainly cannot be categorized to determine whether you are creative people, or do you sometimes get stuck on vertical thinking, non-inquisitives and non-thinking, or even almost always be able to avoid.

But let's just think about this article, and think about when was the last time you did something creative.