Entrepreneurial people think about alternative
solutions.
Creative people are good at spotting those
problems, aren't they?
They always notice those things, they see
them, and they don't have one idea, creative
people have lots of ideas.
You can always tell a really creative person
because they don't have one idea that is the
same idea a few times, they'll have lots of
different, very, very different ideas and
look at ways to solve problems in this sort
of creative breath of thinking.
There has been a lot of talk about whether
creative people are born or bred.
Well, from what I understand you can be born
to be more or less creative but you can certainly
learn to become more creative.
A little bit like a person, perhaps like myself,
who needs to diet.
I could learn to lose a little weight.
Creative people can learn to be more creative.
So, to think creatively we should stop thinking
of "what it is?", instead thinking "what could
it be?".
So it's cool, we should ask children more
questions like "why?", "what if?", "I wonder".
And that could promote their creative thinking.
And imagine you hear lots of different answers,
imagine those links.
Do you know the oldest creative exercise?
No, I don't think I do, please tell me.
Take a cloth hanger, or any other simple object,
and ask your children: "Can you just think
of as many different uses of this object as
possible?"
So really quantity is important not quality
in this case.
And just wait how many different uses you
will see.
Children can be really very creative in this
simple exercise.
I agree with that.
Have you ever tried asking them what they
can't do with a coat hanger?
Because when you actually say what you can't
do they suddenly realize that there are many
things that they haven't thought of.
For example, I have heard a story, now you
have told me, where someone said: "You can't
drink with a coat hanger".
So the teacher picked up the plastic bottle,
pierced with a coat hanger and took the drips
and drunk using the coat hanger.
It is a very creative exercise.
Yes, it's very nice and it's like reverse
brainstorming.
Absolutely.
